征稿期刊

Journal of Managerial Psychology

期刊级别

SSCI (JCR 2023)

IF 3.1

Q2 (MANAGEMENT 171/401)

Q2 (PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED 34/113)

征稿主题

Socio-Economic Impacts of Meaningless Work in Small Businesses and Regions: New Directions for Management and Psychology Research and Practice

细分领域

Meaningless Work Practices in Traditional Work vs Non-Traditional Work Contexts

Critical analyses on managerial and psychological processes via which meaningless work practices emerge and persist in specific industries and geographic regions.

Small businesses and non-traditional manufacturing environments: Many SMEs struggle with cyclically outdated employment processes and managerial practices including inefficient attraction and retention of skilled labor, psychological contract violations, and redundant tasks that do not add value to business and/or employee development and progression.

Meaningless work practices and regional economic disparities: Certain geographic areas suffer from underemployment and non-essential/non-value enhancing job creation, leading to resource misallocation and a pervading sense of meaninglessness.

Gig, informal and unregulated labor markets: Managements' creation of temporary and precarious work arrangements reproduce meaningless tasks with potentially no long-term financial security, career development and recognition for workers.

Government and public sector inefficiencies: Managerial and psycho-social bureaucratic excesses, unnecessary paperwork duplications in local governance environments slow regional economic progress and drain limited, valuable organizational resources.

Managements' workforce skills' underutilization: Highly skilled staff are often trapped in non-contributory, repetitive roles that fail to leverage their psychological know-how and expertise, leading to socio-economic stagnation.

Recognizing, Mapping and Defining Structural and Psycho-Social and Economic Drivers of Meaningless Work Practices (Bykov, 2024; Mitra & Buzzanell, 2017)

How managements' inefficient labor allocation and utilization leads to economic stagnation and organizational paralysis and experiences of work as meaningless in small businesses.

The role of outdated management methods, competences and applications in perpetuating low-value work.

The paradox of managerial automation: replacing meaningful jobs while retaining low-skill, repetitive, robotized work.

Multi-level Geographical and Regional Perspectives on Meaningless Work (Dymitrow & Brauer, 2018)

How underdeveloped regions suffer from artificially created or redundant employment.

The impact of local managerial and economic policies on the emergence of non-value-adding jobs.

Case studies on geographical labor market inefficiencies, management competences and/or incompetencies and skills mismatches.

The Hidden psycho-social and Overt Costs of managerially driven Meaningless Work in Small Businesses and Regions (Cooke et al., 2024)

The financial and opportunity costs of managerially led unnecessary work in SMEs. Inefficiencies in micro-entrepreneurship and informal economies.

How managerially instigated meaningless work practices lead to overt and covert psycho-social costs, business stagnation and economic decline.

Workforce Disengagement and Productivity Losses vs Alternative Conceptualizations, Contemporary Mitigation and Future Strategies (Rastogi et al., 2018)

The psychological and societal impacts of management work that lacks purpose.

The role of managerially implemented digital transformation in maintaining, reducing or exacerbating meaningless work in organizations and regions.

How managements' automation and AI implementation can optimize labor use and competence deployment without displacing meaningful work.

重要时间

Submission Deadline: 2March 2026