Apparently, the answer has changed little in the past 26 years. Norah Watson, an editor in a large publishing concern, was interviewed in Terkel's Working. Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people. There's nothing I would enjoy more than a job that was so meaningful to me that I brought it home.
Nonprofits are all about meaning.
What Workers Want, on what workers long for in their workplaces. The workers believed that it was primarily management resistance that blocked their desired level of influence in the workplace. This type of resistance crosses all sectors. A huge opportunity exists for America to increase the representation and participation of workers at their jobs and thereby to improve the quality of working life. Employees want to feel instinctively that their work is making a positive difference.