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1	Death Awareness and Meaningful Work: Considering Mortality and How It Relates to Individual Perceptions of Work Varghese, Johnson George 08 1900 (has links) While some individuals experience their work as meaningful, others, with the same job, do not. The purpose of this dissertation is to answer the following question: Why do different individuals, with the same job, view the meaningfulness of their work in conflicting ways? I draw on terror management theory and generativity theory to answer this question by testing the relationship between death awareness and meaningful work. The bulk of academic work concerning meaningful work focuses on its outcomes and few scholars have explained the antecedents of meaningful work. This study aims to extend empirical work of the relationship between death awareness and meaningful. meaningful work death awareness death anxiety death reflection religious commitment perceived supervisor support employee engagement employee burnout engagement burnout death mortality salience mortality terror management theory generativity theory Business Administration, Management Religion, Philosophy of Psychology, Personality