Examining the Effects of Servant Leadership on Life Satisfaction

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 873-889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aamir Ali Chughtai
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Servant Leadership

How and when servant leadership enhances life satisfaction

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1077-1093 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanping Li ◽  
Diwan Li ◽  
Yidong Tu ◽  
Jie Liu
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Time Lagged ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
General Self Efficacy

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between servant leadership and life satisfaction through the mediating role of workplace positive affect (WPA), and the moderating roles of collectivistic orientation and general self-efficacy. Design/methodology/approach Using a sample of 304 employees in a two-wave survey, the hypotheses were demonstrated with hierarchical regression analyses. Findings The results revealed that servant leadership was positively related to employee life satisfaction, and WPA served as a mediator between them. Moreover, collectivistic orientation and general self-efficacy moderated the relationship between servant leadership and WPA, and the indirect effect of servant leadership on life satisfaction via WPA. Research limitations/implications The time-lagged research design of this study may limit the ability to draw causal conclusions. Moreover, as this research was conducted in a Chinese context, the question of the generalizability of our findings calls for more attention. Practical implications Leaders are encouraged to adopt the servant leadership style to facilitate employee life satisfaction and organizations should select and recruit managers with servant leadership qualities. Furthermore, because employees’ collectivistic orientation and general self-efficacy moderate the effects of servant leadership on followers’ outcomes, managers need to take individual differences into consideration when they implement managerial strategy. Originality/value This research contributed to a burgeoning stream of servant leadership literature by investigating the functions of servant leadership in promoting life satisfaction, and exploring the affective mechanism linking servant leadership and life satisfaction as well as the boundary conditions of collectivistic orientation and general self-efficacy.

Development and validation of servant leadership scale in Spanish higher education

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khawaja Fawad Latif ◽  
Frederic Marimon
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Career Satisfaction ◽  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Spanish Higher Education

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is twofold. First is the validation of a scale to measure the servant leadership of the university leaders. Second is to analyze how servant leadership affects the career satisfaction and life satisfaction of the academics.Design/methodology/approachUsing a survey of 148 academics at universities located in Spain collected in May 2018, a couple of models were conducted using structural equation model techniques: a confirmatory factor analysis of second order in order to assess the leadership scale and a mediation model to assess how servant leadership impacts on the life satisfaction through career satisfaction.FindingsResults reveal that leadership is a multi-dimensional construct having dimensions namely: behaving ethically, development, emotional healing, empowerment, pioneering, relationship building and wisdom. The total effect of servant leadership on life satisfaction is null due to a competitive mediation of career satisfaction.Originality/valueResearch on servant leadership has primarily focused on business organizations through extensive search in peer-reviewed databases the authors could not find a scale to measure servant leadership behavior in higher education. Additionally, the study assesses the role of career satisfaction as mediator between servant leadership and life satisfaction. Existing research has called for further research into both career and life satisfaction. Life satisfaction research has been criticized on the grounds that it has mainly overlooked the work/organizational settings. Moreover, the authors could only find little research into life satisfaction in higher education, that too in context of students.

Does trust in organization mediate the influence of servant leadership on satisfaction outcomes among flight attendants?

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
pp. 3555-3573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiva Ilkhanizadeh ◽  
Osman M. Karatepe
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Flight Attendants ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Service Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

PurposeDrawing from servant leadership (SL) and social exchange theories, our study investigates trust in organization (TIO) as a mediator of the impact of SL on job, career and life satisfaction.Design/methodology/approachA time-lagged survey design was used to gather data from flight attendants in Turkey. Structural equation modeling was used as the main analytic tool to assess these relationships.FindingsThe relationships proposed in the authors’ study receive full support from the empirical data. Specifically, TIO is one of the immediate outcomes of SL that engenders job, career and life satisfaction at elevated levels. The results highlight the impacts of job and career satisfaction in the intermediate linkage between SL and life satisfaction.Practical implicationsManagement should train managerial employees to enhance the understanding of SL, which boosts flight attendants’ TIO. Management should invest in human resources through training and empowerment. This makes flight attendants perceive that management does not violate psychological contract. Such employees develop TIO that in turn engenders higher job, career and life satisfaction. It is also important to reward servant leaders when they succeed in making flight attendants develop TIO and motivating them to have higher job performance.Originality/valueLittle is known about the consequences of SL in the extant service research. More importantly, there are still calls for research about the variables (e.g. TIO) mediating the relationship between SL and employee satisfaction outcomes.

scholarly journals The Impact of Transformational and Servant Leadership Models on Perceived Organizational Support, Job Satisfaction, and Life Satisfaction in the Ministry of Clergies of Synod of Gereja Kristus During The Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-132
Author(s):  
Oki Hermawati ◽  
Amirrudin Zalukhu ◽  
Wylen Djap ◽  
Erwin Santoso ◽  
Dylmoon Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Perceived Organizational Support ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Positive Effect

The pandemic presents various struggles, including among church leaders and the clergy who serve specifically within the Synod of Gereja Kristus. The research conducted on the clergy looked at the two sides of leadership, i.e. transformational and servant leadership, where both leaders were associated with perceived organizational support, job satisfaction and life satisfaction factors for personal calling in serving as clergy. The results showed a positive and significant effect of transformational leadership on perceived organizational support and life satisfaction. Job satisfaction as a mediating variable also has a significant and positive effect on life satisfaction.

Different Future Time Perspectives Interplay in Predicting Life Satisfaction

GeroPsych ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minjie Lu ◽  
Angel Y. Li ◽  
Helene H. Fung ◽  
Klaus Rothermund ◽  
Frieder R. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Hong Kong Chinese ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Time Perspectives ◽  
Time Extension ◽  
Future Self ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. This study addresses prior mixed findings on the relationship between future time perspective (FTP) and well-being as well as examines the associations between three aspects of FTP and life satisfaction in the health and friendship domains. 159 Germans, 97 US Americans, and 240 Hong Kong Chinese, aged 19–86 years, completed a survey on future self-views (valence) and life satisfaction. They also reported the extent to which they perceived future time as expanded vs. limited (time extension) and meaningful (openness). Findings revealed that individuals with more positive future self-views had higher satisfaction. However, those who perceived their future as more meaningful or perceived more time in their future reported higher satisfaction even when future self-views were less positive.

Social and Temporal Comparisons as Moderators of Psychological Resources Associations With Wellbeing

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasida Ben-Zur
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Subjective Wellbeing ◽  
Social Comparisons ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Psychological Resources ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Age Range ◽  
General Wellbeing

Abstract. The current study investigated the associations of psychological resources, social comparisons, and temporal comparisons with general wellbeing. The sample included 142 community participants (47.9% men; age range 23–83 years), who compared themselves with others, and with their younger selves, on eight dimensions (e.g., physical health, resilience). They also completed questionnaires assessing psychological resources of mastery and self-esteem, and three components of subjective wellbeing: life satisfaction and negative and positive affect. The main results showed that high levels of psychological resources contributed to wellbeing, with self-enhancing social and temporal comparisons moderating the effects of resources on certain wellbeing components. Specifically, under low levels of mastery or self-esteem self-enhancing social or temporal comparisons were related to either higher life satisfaction or positive affect. The results highlight the role of resources and comparisons in promoting people’s wellbeing, and suggest that self-enhancing comparisons function as cognitive coping mechanisms when psychological resources are low.

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