What percentage of our experience of meaning at work do leaders account for, according to the clip?

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Leadership’s Role in Creating Meaning at Work #shorts

19 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip (by Ashish Kothari) featuring a two-person conversation about who is responsible for employees finding meaning at work. The main claim reported: leaders account for 48% of an employee's experience of meaning at work, suggesting meaninglessness at work can be framed as a leadership failure rather than solely an individual problem.

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It is not about what you do, but it is how you experience work. And I think that's where both your responsibility in it of how you make meaning. But also I think when people don't find meaning at work, I think it's a failure of leadership. We are not helping people find meaning at work.
Absolutely. And that was the question that my co author and research partner and friend Wes and I had was what what is the role of leadership? Because a lot of the research on meaningful work, including our very dear friend and mentor Jane Dutton, really looked at individual factors. Right. And so the job crafting research and all that is like how can I as an individual impact my own experience? And that's really important. But we suspected that leaders played a big role and that's what we investigated. And we actually found that leaders are responsible for 48% of our experience of meaning at work.