Meaningful organizational identification and development through appreciative inquiry

This is a conceptual paper where for meaningful organization identification, we used a structured, systematic technique inspired by Gioia et al. (2013) methodology for achieving qualitative rigor in inductive research to analyse the various usages of the concept of “meaningfulness” in the literature. On the other hand, appreciative inquiry as an OD intervention is proposed as it is particularly well suited to the challenge of creating and developing a meaningful workplace. Systematic review of literature through Gioia methodology helped us find three attributes, we propose meaningful organizations that can be identified by either having or not having one, two, or all of the three attributes i.e. Calling, Eudaimonia and Faith-based spirituality. Our study directly and indirectly focuses on how leaders can develop meaningful organizations. On the one hand, this study alerts leaders to the potential of getting employees fully engaged in work