[subject, meaning, and action in work]
[period]
2008-present
[overview of the topic]
Work psychology, as an instituted field of knowledge, has appropriated work through meta-theoretical, theoretical, and specific technological strategies. In doing so, it contributes to the reproduction or maintenance of traditions or narratives of meanings associated with work throughout the history of the industrial West, because such strategies do not operate on a void but on repertories already available within those traditions.
At the same time, psychology also contributes to the reconstruction of the value, representations, and meanings tied to work. In this way, it takes an active place among the social sciences concerned with work.
In this line of research, my interest is to analyze questions of meaning and action in work and their implications for our understanding of subject and work in the present. More specifically, the constructs studied are the meaning and sense of work, their psychosocial antecedents, and their consequences.
[research fronts]
This line is structured into five broad fronts of investigation, each giving rise to different research projects:
- How do the psychological appropriations of work contribute to action in the sphere of work, particularly professional performance?
- How do psychological appropriations reconstitute the sense and meaning of work today, specifically through their theories about career?
- What are the distinctions, in the various traditions of work and organizational psychology, between sense or meaningfulness and meaning of work, and what are the implications of this?
- How can the so-called clinics of work help us think in new ways about understanding or appropriating work today?
- How can we understand the meaning-making process in activities that take place outside the context of formal employment, and what phenomena do they allow us to predict?
[results]
In addition to the articles published in the papers section, you can access other results in book form: Psychology and Work, Work Clinics, and Research methods in work psychology: work clinics.