Professor Wrzesniewski's research interests focus on how people make meaning of their work in difficult contexts (e.g., stigmatized occupations, virtual work, absence of work), and the experience of work as a job, career, or calling. Her current research involves studying how employees shape their interactions and relationships with others in the workplace to change both their work identity and the meaning of the job.
Selected Works
Articles
Getting Unstuck: The Effects of Growth Mindsets about the Self and Job on Happiness at Work
J.M. Berg, A. Wrzesniewski, A.M. Grant, J. Kurkoski, and B. Welle
Journal of Applied Psychology
2022
Misaligned Meaning: Couples’ Work-Orientation Incongruence and Their Work Outcomes
W. Jiang and A. Wrzesniewski
Organization Science
2021
Agony and Ecstasy in the Gig Economy: Cultivating Holding Environments for Precarious and Personalized Work Identities
G. Petriglieri, S.J. Ashford, and A. Wrzesniewski
Administrative Science Quarterly
2019
Multiple Types of Motives Don’t Multiply the Motivation of West Point Cadets
A. Wrzesniewski, B. Schwartz, X. Cong, M. Kane, A. Omar, & T. Kolditz
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2014
