Humans are meaning-making beings, and it’s in our nature to find and create meaning in everything we do. The challenge for making work more meaningful is really about getting out of the way of this natural inclination, and minimising anything that interferes with our natural inclination to engage with the world in meaningful ways.

It may be that hierarchy itself is a big factor in preventing this, because the power imbalance of hierarchy leads to people being subject to the power of others, and subjected to the domination of hierarchy.

Maybe this is one of the reasons why self-management organisations are so effective: because the absence of hierarchy is more supportive of people having a deep and meaningful relationship to their work.