Studying the Organizational Effect of Servant Leadership on Job Behavior(Case: Faculty Members and Employees of University of Zanjan)

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1 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management and accounting, College of Farabi, University of Tehran, Qom, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran

3 Ph.D. of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

4 Ph.D. Student in Management of Public Organizations, Faculty of Management, University of Tarbiat Modares, Iran

Abstract

Servant leadership is a kind of leadership which the leader ignore his personal benefits and seeks achieving others’ physical, emotional and spiritual needs. Regarding to this definition, it would be expected servant leadership creates positive outcomes. The aim of this article is studying the organizational effect of servant leadership at University of Zanjan. In this research, 8 organizational variables have been experimented as servant leadership impacts on the faculty members and employees of University of Zanjan. For this purpose, a questionnaire for measuring the variables is designed, after ensuring its validity and reliability using factor analysis then were distributed among a sample include around 200 faculty members and employees. The research method is descriptive-correlational and based on structural equations model. The result shows that servant leadership has significant and positive effects on job engagement, hope, organizational self-esteem, organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior variables and has negative and significant impacts on intent to quit of the faculty members and employees of University of Zanjan.

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Organizational Culture Management
Volume 15, Issue 1
April 2017
Pages 165-186

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