Servant Leadership

Abstract

Abstract. The present study takes a closer look at servant leadership from a daily diary perspective. We hypothesized daily servant leadership to positively relate to the follower resources: self-efficacy and optimism. We further proposed that this relation should be attenuated if followers do not perceive their leaders to also lead servantly on a general basis. In a diary study, 98 followers completed questionnaires over one week. Hierarchical linear modeling showed daily servant leadership to be associated with followers' daily self-efficacy, but not with followers' daily optimism. Additionally, for the proposed interaction of daily servant leadership with general perceptions of servant leadership, results confirmed the proposed interaction for followers' daily optimism, but not for daily self-efficacy.

Can leaders enhance followers' psychological capital? A framework to support leader–member exchange for sustainable organizations

“…Servant leadership is regarded as a leadership style that benefits both leaders and followers and is commonly used in religious organizations (Coggins and Bocarnea, 2015; Wu et al ., 2013), hospitality firms (Bouzari and Karatepe, 2017; Elche et al ., 2020), the business sector (Chiniara and Bentein, 2018; Hsiao et al ., 2015) and educational institutions (Clarence et al ., 2020; Zhang et al ., 2012). Servant leadership can boost followers' optimism (Kuonath et al ., 2021), activate change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior (Li and Xie, 2021) and strengthen LMX.…”

“…Regardless of whether a society is high power distance or low power distance (Hu et al ., 2018; Yang et al ., 2017), or whether followers prefer authority or equity (Yang et al ., 2017), leaders are role models for their followers (Kuonath et al ., 2021). In this context, servant leaders dedicate themselves to the betterment of their followers, their organization and the community around them (Liden et al ., 2008).…”

“…A growing number of literature also indicates that both servant leadership and LMX contributes to organizational sustainability by enhancing followers' performance (Park and Jo, 2017) and fulfilling their psychological needs (Avolio et al ., 2009; Brimhall et al. , 2016; Hu et al ., 2018; Kuonath et al ., 2021; Li and Xie, 2021; Yang et al ., 2017).…”

Beyond the call of duty: how servant leadership promotes discretionary and constructive efforts to effect workplace functional change

“…Part of the rationale for this is that servant leaders are adept at empowering their followers to actualize their full potential (Eva et al, 2019). In addition, researchers have identified self-efficacy as an outcome of servant leadership (Ji and Yoon, 2021;Kuonath et al, 2021) as well as a proposed mediator (i.e. not empirically tested) between servant leadership and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB; Bantha and Sahni, 2021).…”

“…, 2019). In addition, researchers have identified self-efficacy as an outcome of servant leadership (Ji and Yoon, 2021; Kuonath et al. , 2021) as well as a proposed mediator (i.e.…”