Management Revue – Special Issue: Job Satisfaction Revisited

Call for papers
Gerd Grözinger, University of Flensburg, and
Wenzel Matiaske, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg
Special Issue: Job Satisfaction Revisited
Work is often more than mere employment. Work can mean participation, give meaning, bring joy. Job satisfaction is therefore not only a socio-technical parameter that needs to be observed because of its effects and side effects, but is over and above an independent aim of an organisation or a business.
In the special issue and the corresponding seminar, we would like to discuss job satisfaction in an adequately broad and interdisciplinary way. We are particularly interested in questions such as:
Work conditions are changing, so are the demands on work. Are there new empirical facets of job satisfaction?
The operationalisation of job satisfaction is considered to be difficult, especially when it is interpreted as an intra- or interindividual process. Survey research hardly takes account of that.
We would like to discuss ways and problems of measuring job satisfaction.
The “fight for joy in work” is associated with the normative views of a good life. Which ethical implications does the construct ‘job satisfaction’ hold?
Research on job satisfaction goes back to the beginnings of modern social science, economy, as well as sociology. We are interested in the research history of the construct ‘job satisfaction’.
This is not an exhaustive list.
Deadline
Potential contributors to the workshop at the IUC Dubrovnik (5th – 9th April 2009, http://www.iuc.hr) are encouraged to contact the guest editors directly with an abstract of 1-2 pages before January 31st. A limited amount of travel grants are available.
Full papers for this special edition of the ‘management revue’ must be with the editors by May 31st 2010. All contributions will be subject to a double-blind review. Papers invited to a ‘revise and resubmit‘ are due September 30th 2010. Please submit your papers electronically to matiaske@hsu-hh.de at using as subject ‘management revue’.
Hoping to hear from you
Gerd Grözinger & Wenzel Matiaske

Call for papers

Gerd Grözinger, University of Flensburg, and
Wenzel Matiaske, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg

Special Issue: Job Satisfaction Revisited

Work is often more than mere employment. Work can mean participation, give meaning, bring joy. Job satisfaction is therefore not only a socio-technical parameter that needs to be observed because of its effects and side effects, but is over and above an independent aim of an organisation or a business.

In the special issue and the corresponding seminar, we would like to discuss job satisfaction in an adequately broad and interdisciplinary way. We are particularly interested in questions such as:

  • Work conditions are changing, so are the demands on work. Are there new empirical facets of job satisfaction?
  • The operationalisation of job satisfaction is considered to be difficult, especially when it is interpreted as an intra- or interindividual process. Survey research hardly takes account of that.
  • We would like to discuss ways and problems of measuring job satisfaction.
  • The “fight for joy in work” is associated with the normative views of a good life. Which ethical implications does the construct ‘job satisfaction’ hold?
  • Research on job satisfaction goes back to the beginnings of modern social science, economy, as well as sociology. We are interested in the research history of the construct ‘job satisfaction’.

This is not an exhaustive list.

Deadline

Potential contributors to the workshop at the IUC Dubrovnik (5th – 9th April 2009, http://www.iuc.hr) are encouraged to contact the guest editors directly with an abstract of 1-2 pages before January 31st. A limited amount of travel grants are available.

Full papers for this special edition of the ‘management revue’ must be with the editors by May 31st 2010. All contributions will be subject to a double-blind review. Papers invited to a ‘revise and resubmit‘ are due September 30th 2010. Please submit your papers electronically to Wenzel Matiaske using as subject ‘management revue’.

Hoping to hear from you
Gerd Grözinger & Wenzel Matiaske

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