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Dr. Resneski is a professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management.

Her research focuses on how people make meaning of their work in difficult contexts,

such as stigmatized occupations, virtual work, or 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.

Amy, thanks so much for channel with me today.

Thanks so much for having me. I'm excited to talk with you.

Yeah, I've always have trouble saying the word context zz.

With the S at the end there. Am I the only one in the world that has trouble saying that word?

I'm sure I'm sure you can't be. It's maybe why we should study one context at a time. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's a good point actually.

Okay, so, look, thank you so much for me. There's so much to discuss and I always like to kind of start with the most

like sort of general framework leading question so I was wondering how you define

the word meaning oh that's a great question and it was the this this question

believe it or not though I've been studying meaning for a very long time was the

source of a long conversation I had with the doctoral student yesterday. So it turns out there are a few

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