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dc.contributor.authorKost, Dominique
dc.contributor.authorFieseler, Christian
dc.contributor.authorWong, Sut I
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-04T08:47:57Z
dc.date.available2018-04-04T08:47:57Z
dc.date.created2018-01-05T10:54:09Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationComputers in Human Behavior, 2018, 82(May), 101-110nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn0747-5632
dc.identifier.issn1873-7692
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2492518
dc.descriptionThe accepted and peer reviewed manuscript to the articlenb_NO
dc.description.abstractNew forms of employment centered on the completion of simple and atomized tasks, such as online microwork, raise the question of the possible gratifications that could be derived from such work when compared to more traditional labor arrangements. Our research presented here focuses on how microworkers construct meaningfulness, based on the accounts of workers on the crowdsourcing platform Amazon Mechanical Turk. We draw upon a relational job design perspective to explore why microworkers experience meaningfulness in their work. We found four sources of meaningfulness: rewards, self-improvement, moral, and social. These four sources vary in the degree to which they were internal or external in focus, and in their level of rationalization (concrete or abstract). This may explain why such types of employment are appealing despite a lack of organizational-support structures and points to the need to better understand cue provision in virtual, platform-enabled work settings.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherElseviernb_NO
dc.subjectInternetnb_NO
dc.titleFinding Meaning in a Hopeless Place? The Construction of Meaningfulness in Digital Microworknb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionnb_NO
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Bedriftsøkonomi: 213nb_NO
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Business: 213nb_NO
dc.source.journalComputers in Human Behaviornb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.chb.2018.01.002
dc.identifier.cristin1536451
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 247725nb_NO
dc.description.localcode1, Forfatterversjonnb_NO
cristin.unitcode158,9,0,0
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for kommunikasjon og kultur
cristin.ispublishedtrue
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