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Teresa Cardador
Assistant Professor, School of Labor & Employment Relations
In Brief:
- Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- M.P.H. in Health Policy and Administration, University of California at Berkeley
- B.A. in Psychology, University of California at Berkeley (Phi Beta Kappa)
Research Interests
What makes work worth doing? Under what conditions do workers come to experience a sense of significance and purpose in their work? What role does personal and collective identity play in this process? These questions are fundamental to my program of research.
Grounded in theories of meaningful work, identity and identification, my research centers on how individuals make sense of, and experience meaningfulness in, the work that they do. I am particularly interested in the role that professions, occupations and organizations, as well as internalized orientations towards work (e.g., callings), play in the experience of meaningful work. I also examine how individuals construct meaning in relationship to helping others through their work. In examining these issues, I investigate the correlates and potential outcomes of meaningful work.
Courses Taught
- LER 591: Employment Relations Systems
- BADM 313: Human Resource Management
- BADM 310: Management and Organizational Behavior
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To reach Professor Cardador:
241 LER, 504 E. Armory Avenue
Champaign, IL 61820
(217)244-1398; (217)244-9290 fax
email: cardador@illinois.edu