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Leading with Meaning: Investigating the Role of Leader Work Meaningfulness
Type
fundamental research project
Start Date
01 June 2015
End Date
31 May 2017
Status
ongoing
Keywords
Leadership
work meaningfulness
health
firm performance
Description
Leaders are managers of meaning. A fundamental task of transformational leaders is to infuse employees' work with meaningfulness and shape employees' perception of work as positive and significant. However, we know very little about leaders' own work meaningfulness. In particular, further research is needed to answer the following questions: (1) How and when does leader work meaningfulness trickle down to follower work meaningfulness? (2) What are the key factors which determine leader work meaningfulness? (3) Which influences do leaders' aggregate quality and strength of work meaningfulness have on a firm's leadership climate and firm performance? (4) Does too much of leader work meaningfulness harm leaders' health and ultimately firm performance?
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Funder(s)
Topic(s)
Leadership
work meaningfulness
health
firm performance
Method(s)
large-scale survey studies
interviews
Range
Institute/School
Range (De)
Institut/School
Division(s)
Eprints ID
223335
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PublicationLeading With Meaning: How And When Leader Work Meaningfulness Transfers To Followers( 2016-01-07)
;Raes, AnneloesType: conference paper -
PublicationA moral competency approach to ethical consumption( 2017-05-11)
;Sekerka, LeslieBagozzi, RichardType: conference paper -
PublicationPersonal risk for social good. Yahya’s courageous career and leadership decisions(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2017-05)
;Shakir, Farah Yasmine ;Raes, Anneloes ;Lee, Yih-Teen ;Koonce, Rob ;Robinson, PaulaType: book section -
PublicationDeveloping authentic leaders in business schools: A coaching intervention study( 2017-08-08)
;Braun, SusanneDragoni, LisaType: conference paper -
PublicationDeveloping authentic leaders in business schools: A coaching intervention study( 2017-02-16)
;Braun, SusanneDragoni, LisaType: conference paper -
PublicationKilling meaning: Leaders' impact on the erosion of followers' meaning at work( 2018-05-11)Kark, RonitType: conference paper
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PublicationWhen dreams meet reality: A qualitative investigation of entrepreneurs pursuing their passion in the video game industry( 2016-08-05)
;Lysova, EvgeniaKhapova, Svetlana N.Type: conference paper -
PublicationA self-based trickle-down model of work meaningfulness( 2017-05-04)
;Raes, AnneloesKark, RonitType: conference paper -
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PublicationThe Impact of Customer Contact on Collective Human Energy in FirmsThis paper investigates how and when a firm’s level of customer contact influences the collective organizational energy. For this purpose, we bridge the literature on collective human energy at work with the job impact framework and organizational sensemaking processes and argue that a firm’s level of customer contact is positively linked to the collective organizational energy because a high level of customer contact might make the experience of prosocial impact across the firm more likely. However, as prior research at the individual level has indicated that customers could also deplete employees’ energy, we introduce transformational leadership climate as a novel contingency factor for this linkage at the organizational level. We propose that a medium to high transformational leadership climate is necessary to derive positive meaning from customer contact, while firms with a low transformational leadership climate do not get energized by customer contact. We tested the proposed moderated mediation model with multilevel modeling and a multi-source dataset comprising 9,094 employees and 75 key informants in 75 firms. The results support our hypotheses and offer important theoretical contributions for research on collective human energy in organizations and its interplay with customers.Type: journal articleJournal: Group & Organization ManagementVolume: 44Issue: 5
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