Role of Servant Leadership Style on Leadership Effectiveness: Moderating Role of Spirituality

Abstract

Servant leadership falls in transformational leadership style. In this style leaders’ main purpose is to serve his people, customers, employees, societies and communities first. A good leader must be visionary, listen to problems of others and help them to solve it. Aim of the study is to investigate the moderating role of spirituality on relationship between servant leadership style and leadership effectiveness. In order to enhance leaders’ effectiveness servant leadership along with spirituality i.e. ethics are taken as predictors. This study is quantitative in nature. Survey approach is used. Self-administered questionnaire is used to collect the data from respondents in universities. Primary cross-sectional data is collected from the respondents from public and private sector universities. Primary data is called first hand data which is collected for the first time. Cross-sectional means data collected at point of time. Non probability snow ball sampling technique is used for collecting the sample size. SPSS is used for reliability, validity, and testing of hypotheses. Reliability is checked through Cronbach alpha. Findings revealed that scales used in the study are reliable and valid. Correlations are found significant but moderating effect is not significant. It is recommended that religious practices can enhance the effectiveness of leadership if teachers present their selves as role model to students Academicians, managers can take benefit from the findings of the study. Practitioners must raise awareness about spirituality and servant leadership style in conferences, seminars, workshops and training sessions. The originality of the study lies in investigating the moderating role of spirituality on the relationship between servant leadership and leadership effectiveness,