Effect Of Servant Leadership Research Articles

Research on the relationship between nurses' compliance with standard precautions, servant leadership and emotional exhaustion: A cross-sectional survey.

This study aimed to analyse the effects of servant leadership on nurses' emotional failure and compliance with standard precautions and to explore the moderating effect of individual resilience. A cross-sectional survey. This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from October 9 to November 1, 2022. The convenience sampling method was used to collect questionnaire data from 924 clinical nurses in a third-class general hospital in Chongqing, China. The emotional exhaustion and compliance with standard precautions were at the general level. Servant leadership mediated by emotional exhaustion had a significant positive predictive effect on compliance with standard precautions. Personal resilience played a negative moderating role in the relationship between servant leadership and emotional exhaustion. For nurses with low resilience, servant leadership had a greater impact on emotional exhaustion. The current compliance with standard precautions for clinical nurses is not high due to emotional exhaustion. The level of servant leadership can alleviate nurses' emotional exhaustion and improve compliance with standard precautions. Especially for nurses with low personal resilience, the care and support of department leaders are needed. We found that the compliance with standard precautions is not high, and the link between emotional exhaustion, servant leadership and compliance with standard precautions provides a basis for further patient care. There was no patient or public involvement. Nurses are the key population for hospital infection prevention and control, and their level of compliance with standard precautions is of great significance for hospital infection prevention and control. However, in practice, nurses' compliance with standard precautions is generally low. Most of the previous studies on nurses' compliance with standard precautions were conducted from the perspective of individual nurses, based on the staff's 'knowledge, belief, and action' to study the current status of compliance with standard precautions and the factors affecting adherence, with less attention paid to the influence of psychological, environmental, and organizational factors. Therefore, the study focuses on the impact of servant leadership and emotional exhaustion on standard precautionary adherence, which is of great significance for good care management at the organizational level. It also explored how the impact of servant leadership on emotional exhaustion varies across levels of resilience, which is important for accurately identifying different types of nursing staff and targeting assistance.

The Effect of Servant Leadership on Teacher Performance and Organizational Citizenship Behavior as Mediation Variables

Teachers are the central point of improving the quality of education, so teachers are expected to provide professional performance. Thus, this study aims to examine the effect of servant leadership on teacher performance, organizational citizenship behavior on teacher performance, servant leadership on organizational citizenship behavior, and servant leadership on teacher performance and organizational citizenship behavior as a mediating variable. The research population were 200 teachers in Mamuju regency with a sample of 132 teachers. This study uses a survey quantitative research method. Data analysis in this study uses path analysis and sobel test. The results of the study discovered that there is a significant and positive effect of servant leadership on teacher performance where the value (p = 0.00), a significant and positive effect of organizational citizenship behavior on teacher performance (p =0.00), there is a significant and positive effect on organizational citizenship behavior with value (p = 0.00), and a significant and positive effect on teacher performanceand organizational citizenship behavior as a mediating variable with a value (p =0.02).Therefore, the OCB can be used as a model in strengthening servant leadership to improve teacher performance.

Servant leadership and employee voice behavior: the role of employee work reflection and employee proactive personality.

Despite the recent proliferation of scholarly investigations on servant leadership, clarity remains elusive regarding the specific mechanisms and conditions underpinning employee cognitive processes and their responses to servant leadership. Drawing upon social cognitive theory, proposes a moderated mediation model tested through a time-lagged field data from 489 employees in Study 1 and an experimental data in Study 2. We found that servant leadership indirectly enhances employee voice behavior through increased employee work reflection. Additionally, we considered employee proactive personality as a boundary condition for the positive effect of servant leadership. Our results show that servant leadership prompts employee work reflection only when the level of employee proactive personality is high, which in turn increases employee voice behavior. This study presents significant theoretical and practical implications through the integration of social cognitive theory with servant leadership research.

The Effects of Servant Leadership, Supervision Competence, and Work Loyalty on Teacher Performance

The primary emphasis of teacher performance lies in the strategies employed by educators to proactively enhance the academic achievements of their students. The aim of the research is to examine the relationship between servant leadership, supervisory competence, and teacher work loyalty on teacher performance. This research uses survey methodology, the research sample is 19 school principals and 81 public elementary school teachers in Ciwandan District, Banten Province, Indonesia. The sampling technique was carried out by random sampling. The data collection instrument for this investigation was a questionnaire. Data were analyzed using PLS path modeling. The results of the research show that servant leadership has a significant effect (p<0.05) on supervision competence, supervision competence has no significant effect (p>0.05) on teacher performance, servant leadership has a significant effect (p<0.05) on teacher performance , and work loyalty have a significant effect on teacher performance. Future research is expected to produce a servant leadership paradigm to encourage the growth of teacher performance for the benefit of the school. The implications of this research finding may provide a useful means for principals to self-reflect on their leadership, thereby improving the overall quality of their educational leadership institutions.

The effect of servant leadership on enhancing organizational creativity

تمحورت الدراسة حول تأثير القيادة الخادمة في تعزيز الإبداع التنظيمي وكان الغرض منها هو استكشاف ومناقشة تأثير أنماط القيادة الخادمة المختلفة على الإبداع التنظيمي بهدف صياغة نموذج مفاهيمي متكامل يربط بين القيادة الخادمة والابداع التنظيمي وقد طبق الباحث منهجية المراجعة للدراسات والنظريات السابقة حيث تم بناء نموذج مفاهيمي على أساس نظرية الإبداع التنظيمي متعدد الأبعاد ونظرية القيادة الخادمة. راعى الباحث أساليب القيادة الخادمة التي خضعت للبحث بالفعل وتعيين أبعاد كل من الإبداع التنظيمي والقيادة الخادمة. أجريت الدراسة في مديرية إحصاء النجف الأشرف، ولأجل تحقيق أهداف البحث تم اعتماد استمارة الاستبانة كأداة رئيسية وتضمنت العينة (120) موظفًا تم استهدافهم جميعاً واسترجاع (101) استمارة وبعد تدقيقها تم استبعاد (15) استبانة منها حيث كانت تتضمن بيانات مفقودة بنسبة كبيرة، مما يجعل عدد الاستبانات الصالحة المتبقية (86) استبانة لتحليل البيانات اللازمة واختبار فرضيات البحث وتوصل البحث الى جملة من الاستنتاجات ابرزها وجود توافر للقيادة الخادمة في دائرة إحصاء النجف الاشرف فضلا عن ذلك للابداع التنظيمي تأثير معنوي في القيادة الخادمة ، كما خرج البحث بجملة من التوصيات اهمها على القائد في الدائرة المبحوثة بناء اسس رصينة من القيم الممتدة لثلاثة اجيال والعمل على الأبداع التنظيمي وترسيخ فهمها لدى الافراد العاملين ونشرها في الدائرة الاحصائية وأقسامها ومراكزها اضافة الى ذلك يجب على الدائرة تعزيز القيادة الخادمة بين الموظفين من خلال التأكيد على قيمة وأهمية العمل الذي يرغبون فيه وإشراكهم في عملية صنع القرار ومنحهم المرونة الكافية للسماح لهم بأداء عملهم بكفاءة وفاعلية.

Impact of Servant Leadership on Job Performance with Mediating Role of Trust and Moderating Role of Power Distance: A Case of Hospitals in Pakistan

Job performance is essential for growth, especially in the service sector like hospitals. Apart from other factors, the leadership style affects job performance and other organizational-related outcomes. The literature documents that hospital employees’ job performance has declined. Thus, we have focused on nurses and other healthcare staff, excluding doctors in the healthcare industry. The study’s sample size was 582. The study supports all five hypotheses. We found that “servant leadership and trust positively affect job performance.” Servant leadership positively affects trust. The study also documents that “trust mediates servant leadership and job performance.” At the same time, our results also suggest that “power distance” moderates servant leadership and trust relationship. Based on the direct and indirect effects of servant leadership and job performance, we suggest organizations hire servant leaders. The organizations mustalso regularly conduct counseling sessions for their leaders to focus on the employee’s development and wellbeing. Such attitudes positively enhance job performance and increase employees’ trust. Consequently, employees reciprocate by developing loyalty with the organizations and the leaders.

When and How Servant Leadership Leads to Megaproject Success: The Roles of Project Governance and Interpersonal Trust

Employing social exchange theory, we examined when and how servant leadership leads to megaproject success. Based on the data of 273 responses from project team members and project managers, our findings indicated that servant leadership improves project success in megaprojects by enhancing interpersonal trust. Additionally, when project governance is high, the effect of servant leadership on interpersonal trust is weaker. The study puts forth theoretical and practical implications for professionals working in mega construction projects.

The Role of Empathic Communication in the Relationship between Servant Leadership and Workplace Loneliness: A Serial Mediation Model.

Researchers have increasingly concentrated on loneliness in the workplace as a crucial factor influencing the mental health of employees and the viability of telework. In contrast, the current understanding of the strategies mitigating workplace loneliness and how leaders utilize their behaviors to impact followers' loneliness remains limited. Since servant leadership values the emotional needs of followers and displays a high level of empathy, this study investigated the direct and indirect effects of servant leadership on workplace loneliness. In this study, 267 employees (mean age = 31.5 years) from 28 provinces in China were recruited to participate in this survey. We proposed that servant leaders motivate their own empathic communication and other followers' empathic communication to reduce lonely followers' workplace loneliness. This research further examined the relationship between the leader's and colleagues' empathic communication, and the two jointly mediate the connection between servant leadership and followers' workplace loneliness. We constructed a serial mediation model to examine the relationships between servant leadership, leader's empathic communication, colleagues' empathic communication, and workplace loneliness. The results indicate that servant leadership creates a cycle of empathy and provides insights into building a culture of empathy to improve employee well-being.

Effects of Servant Leadership on Employees’ Collective Strategic Vision and Organizational Innovation Performance in Healthcare Industry

Under the progress of network environment, the interaction between employees and an organization might result in great effects on the organization and directly affect the relationship between the organization and customers. Employees receiving good trust, selfless devotion, and kind care from the leader would show feedback and voluntary act to the organization to indirectly or directly affect organizational employees’ work attitude and performance. Taking supervisors and employees in healthcare industry in Fujian Province as the questionnaire objects, total 500 copies of questionnaire are distributed. After removing invalid and incomplete copies, 416 copies are valid, with the retrieval rate 83%. The research results reveal 1.significantly positive effects of servant leadership on employees’ collective strategic vision, 2.remarkably positive effects of employees’ collective strategic vision on organizational innovation performance, and 3.notably positive effects of servant leadership on organizational innovation performance. According to the results to propose suggestions, it is expected to have organizational employees and stakeholders in healthcare industry, under the leading of servant leaders and resource distribution, perceive fair treatment so that employees present identity on organizational vision and further form positive, shared, and innovative climate to effectively promote organizational innovation performance.

The effect of servant leadership on the organizational citizenship behavior of instructors in public universities in Amhara region

The effect of servant leadership on the organizational citizenship behavior of instructors in public universities in Amhara region

How Does Servant Leadership Affect Turnover Intention a Company?

The food and beverage industry continues to experience positive and substantial development from year to year. Nonetheless, attrition rates range between 60% and 300%. This study investigates the relationship between servant leadership, affective organizational commitment, and turnover intention. In addition, this study seeks to examine the role of affective organizational commitment as a mediator between servant leadership and turnover intention. This study's sample consisted of 78 restaurant employees. The technique used for data analysis was Structural Equation Modeling Partial Least Square (SEM PLS). According to the findings of the study, servant leadership and affective organizational commitment had a significant negative impact on turnover intention. Lastly, affective organizational commitment can substantially and negatively moderate the effect of servant leadership on turnover intention.

Servant Leadership in Government Institution, is it Effective?

The aim of this studiy is to examine the effect of servant leadership on job performance directly and indirectly through the mediating effect of job involvement and job satisfaction. Data were collected through questionnaires by Google Froms and analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with AMOS24. A total of 174 civil servant at the one of Indonesian government agencies in audit services participated as research sample. The results of this study reveal that servant leadership has significant positive effect toward job involvement and job satisfaction, but it has a negative effect toward job performance. Furthermore, this study is expected to contribute to the organization to encourage the role of leaders for prioritizing the employees’ interests to increase job satisfaction and job involvement so that can improve employees’ performance, especially in the public sector.

Employees’ belief restoration in a crisis context: the role of servant leadership, workplace spirituality, and proactive personality

ABSTRACTThere is insufficient empirical evidence to support the critical role of employee’s belief restoration during significant crises. The aim of this study is to derive a model of how servant leadership affects employees’ belief restoration during a crisis, using workplace spirituality and proactive personalities as mediators. For the purposes of this research, partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was conducted on a sample of 315 employees of aviation service providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results revealed positive nexuses between servant leadership and workplace spirituality as well as proactive personality. However, the direct effect of servant leadership on employees’ belief restoration was not supported. The findings further demonstrated positive relationships between workplace spirituality and employees’ belief restoration, as well as between employees’ proactive personalities and their belief restoration. The study also found that the link between servant leadership and belief restoration is significantly and positively mediated by workplace spirituality and employee proactivity.

The Role of Servant Leadership in Creating a Positive School Climate

This study investigates the role of servant leadership in creating a positive school climate. A quantitative research design was used to examine the relationship between servant leadership and school climate, including the effects of servant leadership on student academic achievement, teacher job satisfaction, and school culture. The study was conducted in several schools in a particular district, and data were collected using a survey questionnaire from 40 teachers and 1000 students. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings suggest that there is a significant positive correlation between servant leadership and teacher job satisfaction (r = 0.55, p < 0.01), school culture (r = 0.62, p < 0.01), and academic achievement (r = 0.45, p < 0.01). The results indicate that servant leadership practices contribute to the development of a positive school climate. The study provides support for the notion that servant leadership is a viable leadership approach in schools that can contribute to the development of a positive school climate

The effectiveness of servant leadership in enhancing innovative work behavior: The art of job engagement

The purpose of this research is to examine the connection between servant leadership and innovative work behavior, with job engagement acting as a mediator. The study involved 211 high school and vocational schoolteachers in Bandung and utilized an online survey. Data analysis was performed using SmartPLS 3.2.9 for Windows. The findings confirm that servant leadership has a positive impact on innovative work behavior directly and that job engagement significantly mediates the relationship between servant leadership and innovative work behavior. This study is significant as research on the topic of servant leadership and innovative work behavior in a school context is relatively new. Due to the specificity of the set population within the school institution, the mechanism of how servant leadership impacts innovative work behavior could be better understood. These findings can assist schools’ management in developing innovative work behaviors and creating competitive advantages by creating a psychological connection.

The relationship between servant leadership and nurses' in-role performance: The sequential mediating effects of job autonomy and emotional exhaustion.

Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, this study examines the underlying process through which servant leadership is associated with nurses' in-role performance. Specifically, we test the indirect effect of servant leadership on in-role performance via a sequential mediating mechanism of job autonomy and emotional exhaustion. A time-lagged design was implemented using data gathered from two-wave online surveys (1 week apart) of registered nurses from Jiangsu Province, China. Between September 2022 and February 2023, we used Wenjuanxing and Credma, which are two powerful and user-friendly data collection platforms, to distribute online surveys to potential participants. We received a total of 220 usable responses and employed the PROCESS Model 4 and Model 6 to assess our proposed hypotheses. Our proposed model was supported. Servant leadership has a positive indirect effect on nurses' in-role performance through job autonomy and emotional exhaustion. Job autonomy has a negative effect on emotional exhaustion. Additionally, job autonomy mediates the negative relationship between servant leadership and emotional exhaustion. The present research extends existing nursing studies by unravelling the complex mechanisms underlying the relationship between servant leadership and nurses' in-role performance. Our study also identifies the underlying mechanism of how servant leadership mitigates emotional exhaustion by supporting nurses' job autonomy. The sequential mediation results provide us with a more fine-grained understanding of the relationship between servant leadership and nurses' in-role performance. It further promotes job autonomy and decreases emotional exhaustion, which supports the UN Sustainable Development Goal #3 (Good Health and Well-being). This study addresses the UN Sustainable Development Goal #3: 'To ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages' and the healthcare providers will benefit from our study. Therefore, the study contributes to a more sustainable organization and society.

Does Servant Leadership Decrease Bad Behaviors? The Mediating Role of Psychological Safety and the Moderating Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility

The aim of this research is to elucidate the intricate dynamics of the effects of servant leadership on employee behavior, particularly focusing on counterproductive work behavior. Drawing on the context–attitude–behavior framework, this study underscores the mediating role of psychological safety in this relationship. Additionally, it unveils the pivotal moderating role of corporate social responsibility (CSR), emphasizing its interaction with servant leadership in influencing psychological safety. To empirically test our hypotheses, we gathered survey data from 394 South Korean workers with a three-wave time-lagged research design. Findings indicate that in contexts with pronounced CSR, servant leadership significantly elevates psychological safety, mitigating negative employee behaviors. Conversely, in organizations with less CSR engagement, these positive effects are attenuated. The results underscore the integral role of CSR in complementing leadership initiatives, advocating for its holistic incorporation into organizational strategies to foster conducive work environments. This research bridges several gaps in the current literature, highlighting the imperative for organizations to intertwine servant leadership with robust CSR endeavors to curtail detrimental employee behaviors. This paper also proposes potential directions for future research in this crucial area.

Are the effects of servant leadership only spurious? The state of research on the causal effects of servant leadership, recommendations, and an illustrative experiment

Causality is essential in informing science and policy. In the present study, we investigate the current state of research regarding causality in the field of servant (and authentic) leadership and provide recommendations on how causally identified studies can be conducted. After explaining the methodological problems that potentially prevent causal inferences (i.e., endogeneity bias and issues in experimental design), we provide two systematic literature reviews of servant and authentic leadership showing that these problems remain very prevalent. We then discuss two solutions on how causal effects of servant leadership or perceptions thereof can be established: randomized experiments and instrumental variable regression. To illustrate our recommendations, we report an experiment on the effect of a combination of two servant leadership dimensions (i.e., stewardship and authenticity) on follower performance and also investigate the effect of combined stewardship and authenticity perceptions using instrumental variable regression. The results do not indicate that combined stewardship and authenticity behavior or perceptions affect follower performance. Our study can serve as a roadmap, especially for servant leadership researchers, to address potential endogeneity and conduct causally identified research.

The role of coworker exchange in the relationship between coworker incivility and employees' behaviors: the moderating effect of servant leadership

PurposeThis study aims to examine the effects of coworker incivility on employees' behaviors using a moderated mediation model that conceptualizes coworker exchange (CWX) as a mediator and servant leadership as a moderator.Design/methodology/approachThe data were collected using a multi-temporal research design. The hypotheses were tested on a sample of 1,272 participants using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), hierarchical regression analysis and moderated path analysis. In addition, supervisor incivility was added as a control variable to partial out the potential influence on employees' behaviors.FindingsThe results of CFA ensured that all measures had discriminant and convergent validity. In addition, the results of hierarchical regression analysis and moderated path analysis indicated that CWX mediates the relationship between coworker incivility and employees' behaviors. Furthermore, servant leadership exacerbates the negative relationship between coworker incivility and CWX.Practical implicationsLeaders and practitioners should invest in communication training programs for developing employees' communication skills to avoid incivility. In addition to viewing incivility as inappropriate behavior, leaders and practitioners should understand the meaning beyond those incivilities.Originality/valueThis study utilized incivility spiral theory to examine how coworker incivility affects employees' behaviors. The mediated path analysis found that CWX mediates the relationship between these variables, which has been ignored by previous research. Furthermore, this study introduced servant leadership as a moderator to account for the “when” in incivility spiral theory, i.e. what kind of social context facilitates or inhibits the influence of coworker incivility on CWX.

The Effect Of Servant Leadership, Compensation, Motivation, And Professional Development On Performance Among Private Vocational High School Teachers

This study aims to examine the effect of servant leadership, compensation, motivation, and professional development on performance among teachers in private vocational high schools. The research method used was a survey by distributing questionnaires to teachers in some private vocational high schools in various regions. The results of the study indicate that servant leadership has a positive and significant effect on performance. Compensation also contributes positively to teacher performance, demonstrating that financial rewards can motivate them. Teacher motivation also has a positive effect on teacher performance. Furthermore, teacher professional development has a positive impact on performance, highlighting the importance of investments in improving teacher qualifications and skills. The findings of this study offer valuable insights for the management of private vocational high schools in enhancing teacher performance through the implementation of servant leadership, improving compensation, increasing motivation, and enhancing professional development. This step can help create a more effective learning environment and positively impact the quality of education in private vocational high schools.