The Impacts of Servant Leadership and Organizational Politics on Burnout: A Research among Mid-Level Managers

Abstract

Burnout, as a factor related to an individual's success, is defined as being exposed to behaviors that negatively affect performance and mainly refers to chronic stress. This research focuses on the effects of servant leadership on burnout through organizational politics. Data for the study were collected by survey method with participation of 401 employees from 49 different organizations. Obtained data were subjected to factor analysis with SPSS in order to check the internal consistency of the sample. Thereafter, by using AMOS software, confirmatory factor analysis were conducted and with structural equation modeling method research hypothesis of the study were tested. The results revealed that burnout was not emerged by servant leadership through organizational politics. Even though servant leadership is related to a change by creating a vision, this change process does not affect employees negatively because it comprises long-term plans and occurs spontaneously.

The Role of Cynicism and Personal Traits in the Organizational Political Climate and Sustainable Creativity

“…The theoretical contributions of this study are as follows. First, this study provides a new research perspective for understanding "how to restrain the negative effects of organizational political climate" and expands the research scope of the relationship between "organizational climate-creativity" [56,57]. Secondly, this study enriches the research on antecedents and their influencing mechanisms of the two types of creativity.…”

The Transformational Leadership and Occupational Stress: The Mediating Role of Emotional Intelligence

“…The relationships among readership styles and emotional intelligence provided significant information wherein results show significant association between leadership styles and organizational politics which have been validated through the existing research studies that confirmed that leadership is dynamic in managing the politics within the institutions (Kaya et al, 2016;Ram & Prabhakar, 2010;Uzair et al, 2020). Likewise, this study confirmed significant association between leadership styles and emotional intelligence in different contexts through diverse outcomes that validates results of the study (Harun et al, 2016;Brinia et al, 2014;Ingram & Cangemi, 2012).…”

Transformational Leadership and Occupational Stress: Mediating Role of Organizational Politics

“…These politics are mainly concerned about the self-serving objectives along with objectives of certain particular groups whose interests are well versed in the particular context. The politics is important phenomenon that mainly highlights attentions towards the interests of exact groups for particular purposes (Kaya, Aydin, & Ongun, 2016). The organizational politics has certain positive as well as negative consequences for organizations, however, as per the evidence from the relevant literature, the negative consequences are more than positive outcomes.…”

“…The institutional politics not only affects institutional affairs, and smooth functioning but also affects the employees' expectations about the fair procedures in policies and distribution of resources in institutions. The main responsibility falls on the concerned leadership shoulders to cater to situation affected by politics and to take away employees' apprehensions (Kaya, Aydin & Ongun, 2016). The leaders through different styles try to inspire their employees by eliminating their stress and to provide them a conducive environment where there is no space for politics that may affect their expectations from the institution.…”