Breaking Boundaries: How Play-full Work Design Fuels Trust and Meaningful Work

Is play-full work design strategy effective in higher education sector? To explore this phenomenon, data is collected through a structured questionnaire from teaching faculty of Pakistani universities (public, private and semi-public). SPSS and Amos software are used for the analysis of collected responses. Process macro mediation model suggested that play-full work design has significant positive relationship with job satisfaction and partially mediated by trust in management and meaningful work. Results of this study suggested that play-full work design strengthen the employees’ trust in management and provide insight about worthiness of their tasks, consequently higher level job satisfaction is attained. This study provides insight as well as guidance to higher education commission and top management of universities to take the necessary strategic measures in order to reap the benefits of this mystic practice. In addition, it also enlightens the practitioners’ vision by introducing the alleyways to make their exasperating work more challenging and gratifying.