Week 1: Van Knippenberg (2020) Meaning-Based Leadership Flashcards
missing limitations and reasoning for article
Van Knippenberg introduces what leadership model?
Meaning-Based Leadership (MBL)
Van Knippenberg attempts to model the process through which ______ motivates _____ and the _____ of this process.
Meaning-Based Leadership (MBL), purpose pursuit, contingencies
Organisations of today strive to realise their _____ because it captures to what end the organisation exists and why this is meaningful.
purpose
Leaders must fulfil their own organisational purpose in an appeal to ____ and ____ members to _____ to the overall purpose.
motivate, mobilize, contribute
What are the three sets of (5) moderators on the relationship between MBL and purpose pursuit?
- Conveying group specific understanding
- Empowering leadership
- Leader organisational prototypicality
- Higher level MBL
- Member values match
What is the identified mediator between MBL and purpose pursuit and what must you know about it?
shared purpose/shared meaning; it can vary in gravity throughout the layers of an organisation
Moderator 1: conveying group specific understanding refers to the degree to which it is clear to the group…
This _____ can vary throughout departments and so can the ____ each department makes.
The _____ the group specific understanding, the stronger the effect of MBL on shared purpose and purpose pursuit.
what the purpose means to and for them
understanding, contribution
higher
Moderator 2: empowering leadership means empowering by giving followers _____ and _____.
The ____ empowering leadership, the higher the effect of MBL on shared purpose.
autonomy and responsibilities
higher
Moderator 3: leader organisational prototypicality refers to the degree to which…
The higher the prototypicality, the _____ the effect of MBL on purpose pursuit.
a leader is a prototype of the organisations values and purpose
stronger
Moderator 4: higher-level meaning-based leadership refers to the level of…
The higher the MBL, the _____ it will be to effectively communicate the purpose.
Note that MBL of higher and lower levels needs to be ____ for MBL to be effective.
authority and rank a leader has in an organisation
easier
aligned
What is the main question Van Knippenberg asks in this research?
How can meaning-based leadership help in realising organisational purposes?
Moderator 5: member values match refers to the degree to which…
If this is high, then the effect of MBL on shared purpose and purpose pursuit will be ____.
followers values, culture and purposes matches those of the organisation
stronger
exam question:
According to Knippenberg (2019), meaning-based leadership leads to higher levels of purpose pursuit when leaders also show high levels of leader organisation prototypicality. Why so?
a. Leader organisation prototypicality ensures that the discussion of organisational purpose is a dialogue within the group and not a leader monologue, which helps to build a shared understanding.
b. leaders high on leader organisation prototypicality represent the identity or the organisation and therefore followers will be more open to the leaders understanding of the organisational purpose.
c. leader organisation prototypicality makes followers better understand what the abstract organisational purpose means for the concrete actions of their group
d. leader organisation prototypicality encourages openness and vulnerability which helps with constructive dialogue about the purpose of the organisation.
b.
According to van Knippenberg (2019), meaning-based leadership leads to higher levels of purpose pursuit when leaders also show high levels of leader organization prototypicality. Why so?
Leaders high on leader organization protypically represent the identity of the organization and therefore followers will be more open to the leader’s understanding of the organizational purpose.
