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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
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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 family management on employee well-being: A multilevel studyNon-family employees are an important resource in family firms; therefore, understanding their well-being is of utmost relevance for management theory. Integrating leadership theory into family business research, we draw from the emotional contagion and person-organization fit theories and argue that employee well-being in terms of organizational-level affective climate and individual-level job satisfaction is higher in firms managed by a family CEO. Moreover, we hypothesize that this relationship becomes stronger with higher levels of CEO transformational leadership and weaker with increasing CEO tenure. We test our hypotheses using a large-scale, multilevel dataset comprising 2,246 direct reports of the respective CEO and 41,531 employees from 497 family- and non-family-managed firms. By applying multilevel modeling, we found support for our proposed hypotheses. Post-hoc tests reveal that the positive effect of family management is particularly strong in first generation family firms. This article contributes to research on leadership and on family firms and advances the evidence-based debate about employees in those firms.Type: journal articleJournal: Academy of Management Proceedings
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