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Obliged to follow your command: examining how and when servant leadership affects service performance
Hamna Asghar1, Muhammad Mumtaz Khan1, Syed Saad Ahmed1
1Business Studies Department, Bahria University - Karachi Campus, Karachi, Pakistan.
Purpose:
This study is undertaken to explain how servant leadership affects employees' service performance through their felt obligation toward their leaders. Furthermore, the study explores how the relationship between felt obligation and service performance is moderated by performance pressure.
Design/Methodology/Approach:
The data were collected from 312 manager-subordinate dyads working in private sector hospitals of Karachi. The data were analyzed through covariance-based structural equation modeling.
Findings:
The study found that employees' performance is affected by servant leadership and felt obligation toward managers. Furthermore, the study found that felt obligation toward leader mediates the relationship between servant leadership and employees' performance. Finally, the study found that the relationship between felt obligation toward leader and employees' performance was not contingent upon perceived performance pressure.
Originality/Value:
The study confirms the mediating role of felt obligation toward leaders linking servant leadership to employees' service performance. The study also tests the moderating role of performance pressure influencing the relationship between relationship between felt obligation toward leaders and employees' service performance.
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