Marjolein Lips-Wiersma

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Marjolein Silvia Lips-Wiersma is a New Zealand academic. She specializes in ethics, meaningful work and sustainability. She is currently a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology.^[1]

Academic career[edit]

Marjo Lips-Wiersma is Professor of Ethics and Sustainability Leadership at AUT. In 1999 she submitted a doctoral thesis titled The influence of 'spiritual meaning-making' on career choice, transition and experience at the University of Auckland.^[2] Her research takes place at the nexus of meaningful work, sustainability, hope and well-being.

Lips-Wiersma's research on meaningful work is used in a variety of organisations around the world and she is co-director of the Map of Meaning (https://www.themapofmeaning.org) which, through training and certifying practitioners, helps individuals and organisations to talk about, create and maintain meaningful work.

Lips-Wiersma has published in journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Journal of Management Studies, Leadership Quarterly, Group & Organization Management and the Journal of Management Inquiry and has been a member of several editorial boards. She has teaches ethics, sustainability, responsible leadership and qualitative research methods at undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA levels.

Selected works[edit]

• Lips-Wiersma, Marjolein, and Lani Morris. "Discriminating between ‘meaningful work’and the ‘management of meaning’." Journal of Business Ethics 88, no. 3 (2009): 491-511.
• Algera, Puck M., and Marjolein Lips-Wiersma. "Radical authentic leadership: Co-creating the conditions under which all members of the organization can be authentic." The Leadership Quarterly 23, no. 1 (2012): 118–131.
• Lips-Wiersma, Marjolein. "The influence of spiritual “meaning-making” on career behavior." Journal of Management Development 21, no. 7 (2002): 497-520.
• Lips‐Wiersma, Marjolein, and Douglas T. Hall. "Organizational career development is not dead: A case study on managing the new career during organizational change." Journal of Organizational Behavior: The International Journal of Industrial, Occupational and Organizational Psychology and Behavior 28, no. 6 (2007): 771–792.
• Lips-Wiersma, Marjolein, and Colleen Mills. "Coming out of the closet: Negotiating spiritual expression in the workplace." Journal of managerial Psychology 17, no. 3 (2002): 183–202.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

The Map of Meaningful Work

Marjolein Lips-Wiersma publications indexed by Google Scholar

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