How serving helps leading: mediators between servant leadership and affective commitment.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Servant leadership has long been associated with maintaining employee's affective commitment, yet the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Research from non-western cultures remains scarce.

Methods

This study sought to fill in such research gap by introducing insights from social exchange theory perspective, and examined two potential mediators (viz., psychological safety and job burnout) with a largescale, representative Chinese sample.

Results

A total of 931 staffs in a Chinese hospital were surveyed, and structural equation models revealed that psychological safety (indirect effect = 0.052, 95% Bootstrap CI = [0.002, 0.101]) and job burnout (indirect effect = 0.277, 95% Bootstrap CI = [0.226, 0.331]) parallelly (and partially) mediated the effect of s

SUBMITTER: Bai M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10351042 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature