ABSTRACT

This chapter is about meaningfulness and stimulation or futility in the work situation, building a wall or building a windmill, the individual’s experience of comprehensibility manageability and meaningfulness in the work situation, satisfaction of needs is fundamental to work motivation, effort-reward balance/imbalance, motivation through empowerment and nudging and occupational identity. The chapter also includes some statements to consider and reflect on in relation to sustainable working life on the individual level.