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The Leipzig Leadership Model
(2023)
The Leipzig Leadership Model (LLM) connects theory and practice. Building on actor-world relations and insights from motivational psychology (actor-action relations), the LLM proposes a holistic framework able to integrate the existing plethora of leadership theories and styles. This opens up a new perspective on a comprehensive understanding of leadership roles. With its four leadership orientation dimensions of purpose, entrepreneurial spirit, responsibility, and effectiveness, the LLM enables leaders to identify and reflect on relevant leadership competencies. In order to facilitate future research on the LLM and its dimensions, we report on two studies that are developing and validating a 32-item LLM-based scale. We applied oblique bifactor target rotation in a bifactor Exploratory Structural Equation Model within CFA approach in a German sample (N = 309) with robust WLSMV-estimates to fit an LLM-based model to the data. The results suggest a good fit. Furthermore, as ECV, PUC and ARPB support the multidimensional nature of the scale, we report the appropriate bifactor statistical indices. After parallel back translation, an English version of the scale was tested in a second sample (N = 311) to replicate our earlier findings. This study facilitates future empirical research by providing a concise and integrative self-rating measure of leadership orientations. We further strengthen the scientific foundation of the LLM by empirically testing its conceptually developed four-factor structure. The scale provides a starting point for further research into leadership orientations (also as standalone subscales), and offers an applicable guideline for self-reflection and decision-making.
Engagement at a higher level
(2022)
We investigate whether an organization’s social contribution is associated with positive consequences for both the organization and its employees by building on the growing body of research that aims to bridge the gap between micro-level and macro-level phenomena. Specifically, we theorize and empirically show that public value can increase the engagement of employees, while employee engagement mediates the effect of public value on job satisfaction, affective commitment, life satisfaction, and intention to quit. To test our hypotheses, we conduct a large-scale representative online survey (N = 1383). We use organizational public value as a comprehensive conceptualization of the social contribution of organizations and measure employee engagement by creating and validating a German-language version of Shuck et al.'s (2017a) employee engagement scale. Our findings indicate that both external and internal benefits for the organization and its employees may need to be considered when an organization decides on how to balance or integrate profit and social contribution. Additionally, we demonstrate that the experiences of employees regarding not only their work role but also their role as members of their organization, i.e., their perception of their organization’s public value, are relevant for a more comprehensive understanding of what affects and engages employees.
Organizational purpose has recently gained great popularity in research and practice. However, the development of this nascent research field has struggled with definitional ambiguity, the lack of a measurement instrument and little empirical testing of potential outcomes. In our paper, we first introduce and define the multidimensional construct of perceived organizational purpose, which sheds light on the individual and subjective experiences of organizational purpose. Second, building on our construct definition, we develop and validate a four-dimensional Perceived Organizational Purpose Scale. Third, we disentangle the related yet differentiated concepts of perceived organizational purpose and meaningful work and theorize how substantial knowledge in the field of meaningful work can be transferred to the relatively new and untested field of perceived organizational purpose. Fourth, we critically elaborate and empirically test the relationship of perceived organizational purpose with employee job satisfaction, subjective wellbeing and work-life conflict.
This dissertation aims to contribute to a better theoretical understanding of common good orientation in an organizational context, its measurability, and effects on an individual, organizational and social level. Specifically, this dissertation theoretically discusses and empirically tests what common good orientation encompasses in an organizational context, why it is valuable for individuals, organizations and societies alike, as well how it could be implemented in organizational leadership practices. While building on the findings of Meynhardt's (2009, 2015) Public Value research, this dissertation mainly seeks to lay the empirical and theoretical foundations surrounding the hitherto poorly researched concept of Organizational Purpose. Despite the popularity of organizational purpose, no agreement has yet been reached on the definition of the construct, which has hampered further theoretical development and empirical testing. This cumulative dissertation consists of three empirical papers and an introductory conceptual paper.
Gemeinwohl & Kirche
(2020)
Im Licht aktueller soziopolitischer Entwicklungen erlebt das allgemeine Interesse am Gemeinwohl ein Wiederwachen. Wie nie zuvor steht die Identifizierung dessen, was als Gemeinwohl bezeichnet werden kann, im Zentrum der Debatte. Der Gemeinwohl Atlas bietet einen Weg in den Dialog zwischen Organisationen, Politik und Gesellschaft. Die Daten zeigen: Auch kirchliche Institutionen sehen sich mit der Herausforderung konfrontiert, trotz tiefgehender Verwurzelung der dynamisch-fluiden Natur des Gemeinwohls in Form intellektueller Teilhabe Rechnung zu tragen.
Der GemeinwohlAtlas bildet transparent ab, wie die Gesellschaft den Gemeinwohlbeitrag der bekanntesten Organisationen und Unternehmen in einem Land beurteilt. Dabei setzt der Gemeinwohlbegriff bei der Wahrnehmung an und verankert Gemeinwohl in menschlichen Grundbedürfnissen. Regelmäßig wird ein bevölkerungsrepräsentatives Sample aus der Gesellschaft gebeten Organisationen und Unternehmen nach den grundbedürfnisorientierten Gemeinwohl-Dimensionen Moral, Lebensqualität, Aufgabenerfüllung und Zusammenhalt zu beurteilen. Die Datenerhebung 2019 umfasste insgesamt 11769 Personen im Alter zwischen 18 und 93 Jahren mit Wohnsitz in Deutschland, die insgesamt 137 Organisationen und Unternehmen beurteilten.