Meaning of Work Barometer for small groups and communities (under 10 people)

Benefits

• The tool helps everyone in your group/community to gain personal insights into the factors that impact the meaningfulness of their work, which they can use to support both the development of their own work and their career reflections.
• The tool boosts your group/community’s work-related self-awareness, which helps them to identify and articulate important development targets for their work motivation and wellbeing.
• The tool also helps you to better understand your group/community and them to understand each other. Inclusive and shared development of meaningful work becomes easier when the members of the group know each other better. 

What do I do?

1. Familiarise yourself with the Meaning of Work Barometer by taking the survey. This is a basic requirement for using the tool with a group/community.

   Open the survey

2. Introduce the barometer to your group/community and send them this link: Barometer for individuals. Do this via Teams or email and ask the group to respond to the survey. Emphasize that the responses will only be available to them personally and that no group profile will be formed. 
3. Organize a session in which, based on the interpretation guidelines provided with the tool, you review which dimensions of the profile show a poor, good, or above‑expectation meaning–fulfilment fit — in other words, how well what each person expects from work aligns with what they experience in their current job.

4.  Make use, if you wish, of the support materials for facilitating group discussions that can be downloaded via this link:

   Download Meaning of Work Barometer support material for group discussions (PowerPoint)

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.