Does Servant Leadership Behavior Induce Positive Behaviors? A Conceptual Study of Servant Leadership, Psychological Safety and Turnover Intention

  • Authors

    • Noor Ahmed Brohi
    • Amer Hamzah Jantan
    • Sultan Adal Mehmood
    • Mansoor Ahmed Khuhro
    • Muhammad Saood Aktar
    • . .
    2018-10-07
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.15.26326
  • Servant Leadership, Psychological Safety, Turnover Intention.

  • Abstract

    In this paper, we examine how servant leadership and psychological safety may enlighten our understanding of human mechanisms that affect follower outcomes. Servant leadership style as penned by Robert Greenleaf that servant leaders guide followers to adopt the behavior of their leaders by putting others needs above their own. From emerging research on servant leadership, we proposed a model contending that servant leaders increase employees’ psychological safety that organization is a safe place to speak up ideas, opinions and take decisions, which directly influences Employees’ turnover intention. As proposed, servant leadership will be negatively related to Employees’ turnover intention and positively related to psychological safety. Psychological safety will mediate the relationship between servant leadership and turnover intention.

     

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    Ahmed Brohi, N., Hamzah Jantan, A., Adal Mehmood, S., Ahmed Khuhro, M., Saood Aktar, M., & ., . (2018). Does Servant Leadership Behavior Induce Positive Behaviors? A Conceptual Study of Servant Leadership, Psychological Safety and Turnover Intention. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(4.15), 530-534. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.15.26326

    Received date: 2019-01-21

    Accepted date: 2019-01-21

    Published date: 2018-10-07