Creating Healthy, Meaningful, and Productive Work

The latest book from the SIOP Organizational Frontiers Book Series examines how to create healthy, meaningful, and productive work in the face of hybrid work models, shifting careers, technological advances, an aging workforce, and other such major contemporary changes.

Transformative Work Design, which was edited by SIOP Fellow Sharon K. Parker and others, explores this crucial question by presenting a thorough, evidence-based view of work design. With contributions from 49 highly eminent authors in the field across 25 chapters, it synthesizes research on how work design influences critical outcomes like worker motivation, mental health, well-being, and job performance for individuals and teams.

The book also covers key methodologies for studying work design and explores new areas of research. For instance, authors explore how work design can shape identity and personality development, moving beyond the usual focus on well-being and performance outcomes. Additionally, the book shifts the traditional emphasis from understanding the outcomes of work design to unpacking the antecedents of work design. Chapters explore how various individual, team, organizational, and global factors shape the way people’s work is designed, laying the foundation for understanding how to successfully redesign work.

Contributors include SIOP Fellows Michael A. Campion and Frederick P. Morgeson; Members Emily Campion, Ulrike Fasbender, and Chia-Huei Wu; and SIOP Associates Daniela M. Andrei and Irene De Pater.

Since 1983, the SIOP Organizational Frontiers Book Series has helped researchers and practitioners stay abreast of research and developments in the constantly evolving workplace by providing the latest information and supporting professional development for those working in I-O psychology, organizational behavior, human resource management, and related fields.