A New Meaning-Mission Fit

Aligning Life and Work in Business

verfasst von: Michelle French-Holloway

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buchreihe : Future of Business and Finance

Enthalten in: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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This book offers a clear process for managers, professionals, and future leaders to help discover their personal meaning in life and apply it to their work. The author uses research outcomes and theories to refute the contemporary philosophy that stresses following an individual’s passion alone when choosing a particular job or career. Instead, she recommends employing a personal meaning-oriented approach to life and work, and then becoming passionate about one’s work organically.
The book also highlights the positive outcomes to organizations and societies when individuals engage with finding meaning in work, focusing on physical and emotional health and satisfaction. The author provides numerous examples of leaders who have aligned their personal meaning and organizational mission, also known as “meaning-mission fit,” and the relationship of this alignment to their emotional well-being. Together, the research, theory, and evidence in this book equip leaders and managers with an inspiring model to find their own meaning-mission fit, as well as create opportunities for the employees to do the same.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

1. Introduction

Abstract

Increasingly, people are feeling like their lives lack a sense of meaning. Many people are looking to work to fill their lives with meaning. However, work often does not fill the meaningfulness void. When people do not find meaning in their work, they are less productive and more likely to quit. When people are able to do meaningful work, they are more physically and emotionally healthy, more satisfied with their job, more productive, less likely to quit, and the entire organization performs better. So how can people get all these great benefits from meaningful work? The common advice is to “follow your passion.” The reality is the other way around. The research on which this book is based found that people who first answer a calling to fulfill their life’s purpose then experience meaning in their work and following that become passionate about their work.

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2. What Is Meaning-Mission Fit?

Abstract

Who are you and why are you here? What does your workplace exist to be and to do? Is the place where you work a good fit for you? This chapter offers an in-depth exploration of meaning, organizational mission, and fit in organizations. The background and definition of meaning-mission fit are established. We learn how values, goals, and alignment come together to form the basis of our experience with work.

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3. The Experience of Meaning-Mission Fit (What’s It Like?)

Abstract

This chapter describes what it is like to synchronize your sense of meaning in life with the mission of the organization where you work. This fit between meaning and mission occurs when people can engage in strengths expression, receive organizational support, and experience cause alignment. When all these factors are present, people tend to be extraordinarily happy and feel satisfied with their work.

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4. The Benefits of Meaning-Mission Fit (Why Do You Want It?)

Abstract

People who have meaning-mission fit experience benefits including overall happiness, life satisfaction, and job satisfaction. Leaders with meaning-mission fit also feel a responsibility to help their employees experience emotional well-being in their work. This chapter explores the concepts and happiness, job satisfaction, and responsibility in detail. An exhaustive description reveals the structure of the experience of having meaning-mission fit.

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5. The Experience of Misfit (What Happens When You Don’t Have It?)

Abstract

This chapter describes what it is like to experience meaning-mission misfit. People who have experienced both meaning-mission fit and meaning-mission misfit are able to articulate both experiences clearly. We will explore the negative job attitudes and symptoms of low psychological well-being associated with having this lack of alignment. An exhaustive description reveals the structure of the experience of meaning-mission misfit.

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6. The Process of Attaining Meaning-Mission Fit (How To Get It)

Abstract

Having explored the positive effects of having meaning-mission fit and the negative impacts of not having it, the next step to find out how to find your fit. In this chapter we delve into the steps that people take to find and experience meaning-mission fit. The KAPII model of the meaning-mission fit process is detailed and methods for teaching and learning about meaning-mission fit are described.

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7. The Meaning Enactment Process (Things You Need to Make It Work For You)

Abstract

The Meaning Enactment Process describes the journey people navigate to discover their meaning-mission fit. The process is comprised of three phases and five stages, beginning with Calling and concluding with Passion. This conceptual model ties together the theories presented throughout the book and reveals the structure of the experience of finding meaning, accepting one’s calling, and having passion in work.

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8. Conclusion

Abstract

How do you know if you are experiencing meaning-mission fit? If you are experiencing it, how much fit do you currently have? This chapter describes the ways you can determine your current level of meaning-mission fit and what you can do now to align your personal meaning with your work. After describing recommendations for future research, the book concludes with encouragement for each reader to move forward on your own path toward finding meaning-mission fit.

Michelle French-Holloway

Backmatter

Titel: A New Meaning-Mission Fit
verfasst von: Michelle French-Holloway
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-41164-0
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-41163-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41164-0