Meaning of Work Barometer for individuals

The Meaning of Work Barometer helps you identify what creates meaning and meaningfulness in your work and how to strengthen it. On this page, you will find the version of the barometer that is for individuals along with instructions for its use.
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Benefits

  • The tool helps you understand what impacts the meaningfulness of your work. You can then use this knowledge to support the development of your work and career reflections.
  • The tool boosts your work-related self-awareness, which helps to identify and articulate the vital development targets for your work motivation and wellbeing.
  • The tool includes clear instructions for interpreting the profile, which helps you to reflect on how the profile makes you feel and what kinds of actions it might give rise to.
  • The tool generates your profile, which you can also use as a basis for discussion with a professional in career guidance and working-life counselling, occupational health care, or professional rehabilitation, among others.

What do I do? 

  • Open and respond to the survey via the link below.
  • After you complete the survey, you will receive your Vocational Meaning and Fulfilment profile and its interpretation guide. Download the profile on your device.
  • Use the instructions to figure out which dimensions of the profile show poor, good or above-expectation meaning-fulfilment fit— in other words, how well what you expect from work aligns with what you experience in your current job. 

Open the Meaning of Work Barometer

Use of the data

Responding to the survey takes place anonymously. Your answers are collected in the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health’s Louhin service. The Institute cannot identify individual respondents.
 

For more information, please contact

University Lecturer Johanna Rantanen and Project Researcher Sanna Markkula, University of Jyväskylä, Department of Psychology

Feedback and additional information: meanwell [at] jyu.fi (meanwell[at]jyu[dot]fi)

The Meaning of Barometer is based on MEANWELL: Meaningful work as a source of well-being in organisations: https://www.jyu.fi/en/projects/meanwell-meaningful-work-for-well-being

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