Make Your Job a Calling

Informationen zum Autor Bryan Dik, PhD, is associate professor of psychology at Colorado State University and cofounder and chief science officer of Career Analytics Network/jobZology. His research is primarily in the area of career development, especially perceptions of work as a calling; meaning, purpose, religion and spirituality in career decision-making and planning; measurement of vocational interests; and career development interventions. He serves on the editorial boards of six research journals, including Journal of Counseling Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and Journal of Career Assessment. He is recipient of the 2010 Early Career Professional Award from the Society for Vocational Psychology, and is coeditor of two other books: Psychology of Religion and Workplace Spirituality and Purpose and Meaning in the Workplace. Ryan D. Duffy, PhD, is assistant professor of psychology at the University of Florida. Ryan's research is primarily in the areas of vocational psychology and positive psychology. Topics he has studied include calling, job satisfaction, well-being, work volition, work values, and the interface of spirituality and work. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Career Assessment and Journal of Counseling Psychology. Klappentext Regardless of where we are in our careers, we can all find joy and meaning in the work we do, from the construction zone flagger who keeps his crew safe to the corporate executive who believes that her company's products will change the world. In Make Your Job a Calling authors Bryan J. Dik and Ryan D. Duffy explore this powerful idea and help the reader navigate the many challengesboth internal and externalthat may arise along the pathway to a sense of calling at work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments / ixPart 1: Calling in the Twenty-fi rst CenturyChapter 1. Recovering Calling / 1Chapter 2. What Work Means, and the Difference It Makes / 23Part 2: Dimensions of CallingChapter 3. Listening / 45Chapter 4. Making Meaning / 65Chapter 5. Serving Others / 87Part 3: Discovering and Living a CallingChapter 6. Forging a Path / 109Chapter 7. Job Crafting / 131Chapter 8. Callings outside of Paid Work / 151Part 4: Boundary Conditions and Challenges of a CallingChapter 9. Perils and Pitfalls / 173Chapter 10. A Role for Calling in the Changing World of Work / 197Questions and Answers / 221Notes / 253Index / 269...

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Regardless of where we are in our careers, we can all find joy and meaning in the work we do, from the construction zone flagger who keeps his crew safe to the corporate executive who believes that her company’s products will change the world. In Make Your Job a Calling authors Bryan J. Dik and Ryan D. Duffy explore this powerful idea and help the reader navigate the many challenges—both internal and external—that may arise along the pathway to a sense of calling at work.

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Acknowledgments / ixPart 1: Calling in the Twenty-fi rst CenturyChapter 1. Recovering Calling / 1Chapter 2. What Work Means, and the Difference It Makes / 23Part 2: Dimensions of CallingChapter 3. Listening / 45Chapter 4. Making Meaning / 65Chapter 5. Serving Others / 87Part 3: Discovering and Living a CallingChapter 6. Forging a Path / 109Chapter 7. Job Crafting / 131Chapter 8. Callings outside of Paid Work / 151Part 4: Boundary Conditions and Challenges of a CallingChapter 9. Perils and Pitfalls / 173Chapter 10. A Role for Calling in the Changing World of Work / 197Questions and Answers / 221Notes / 253Index / 269