Visionary leadership is considered to be one of the most important elements of effective leadership. Among other things, it is related to followers' perceived meaningfulness of their work. However, little is known about whether uncertainty in the workplace affects visionary leadership's effects. Given that uncertainty is rising in many, if not most, workplaces, it is vital to understand whether this development influences the extent to which visionary leadership is associated with followers' perceived meaningfulness. In a two‐source, lagged design field study of 258 leader‐follower dyads from different settings, we show that uncertainty moderates the relation between visionary leadership and followers' perceived meaningfulness such that this relation is more strongly positive when uncertainty is high, rather than low. Moreover, we show that with increasing uncertainty, visionary leadership is more negatively related to followers' turnover intentions via perceived meaningfulness. This research broadens our understanding of how visionary leadership may be a particularly potent tool in times of increasing uncertainty.

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探索未知：不确定性调节了有远见的领导力、感知意义和离职意向之间的联系

有远见的领导被认为是有效领导的最重要要素之一。除其他外，它与追随者对其工作的感知意义有关。然而，人们对工作场所的不确定性是否会影响有远见的领导力的效果知之甚少。鉴于许多（如果不是大多数）工作场所的不确定性正在上升，了解这种发展是否会影响有远见的领导力与追随者感知意义的关联程度至关重要。在对来自不同环境的 258 个领导者-追随者二人组进行的双源滞后设计实地研究中，我们表明，不确定性调节了有远见的领导力与追随者感知意义之间的关系，因此当不确定性较高时，这种关系更加积极，而不是低的。此外，我们发现，随着不确定性的增加，有远见的领导力通过感知意义与追随者的离职意向呈负相关。这项研究拓宽了我们对富有远见的领导力如何在不确定性日益增加的时期成为特别有效的工具的理解。