Technology Use Enhances Meaningful Work

Abstract Research on meaningful work is diverse, including methods to assess meaningful work and findings on what makes work meaningful. Technology adoption and use frameworks (technology acceptance model, unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model, and substitution augmentation modification redefinition framework) are useful to help explain how technology use links to meaningful work. To augment the meaningful work literature base, this chapter includes a qualitative case study, involving higher education faculty and technology use frameworks. The chapter describes how technology use impacts meaningful work and that higher education faculty recognize the continuous prevalence of technology use in instructional delivery and remain committed to elevating their technology capabilities via self or guided training. The chapter describes that faculty’s perception of technology usefulness affects their attitude about technology use. The study findings indicate that when faculty perceive that the technology they use is easy, useful, and provides value to others and they receive support as desired, heightened meaningful work occurs. Study results allowed for developing a technology use antecedents of meaningful work model.