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19.04.2020 | Original Paper

Servant Leadership Influencing Store-Level Profit: The Mediating Effect of Employee Flourishing

verfasst von: Vincent J. Giolito, Robert C. Liden, Dirk van Dierendonck, Gordon W. Cheung

Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics | Ausgabe 3/2021

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Servant leadership and other ethical and moral approaches to leadership have been criticized for focusing on followers to the potential detriment of other stakeholders, specifically shareholders. With individual data collected from 485 respondents nested in 55 similar stores in a single company, within a large metropolitan area in France, we tested a multilevel model whereby servant leadership relates positively to business-unit performance measured by profit growth—a key indicator for shareholders—through the mediation of employee flourishing and revenue growth. With financial performance data collected approximately 15 months after servant leadership was measured, results supported the hypothesized relationships. At the individual level, this study also showed the association of servant leadership and employee flourishing to be negatively moderated by individual perceptions of power distance orientation: the weaker the power distance orientation, the stronger the influence of servant leadership on employee flourishing. Improving on prior studies that relied on data aggregated at the group level and proximal indicators of performance, this multilevel study sheds light on how servant leadership, a prominent form of ethically conscious leadership, may resolve the fundamental tension leaders face vis-à-vis the potentially diverging interests of their stakeholders.

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Building on Rosso et al.’ (2010) remarks on the confusion of meaning and meaningfulness of work, we use here the definition of meaningfulness.

Initially, power distance had been defined at a national level to describe the degree to which people perceive that it is appropriate for power to be distributed unequally (Daniels and Greguras 2014; Hofstede et al. 2010; House et al. 1999).

The dispersion in revenue growth was high, as indicated by the standard deviation in Table 2. Suspecting that outliers may have a disproportionate influence, we tested our model without the stores with extreme values. The results were not different.

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Titel: Servant Leadership Influencing Store-Level Profit: The Mediating Effect of Employee Flourishing
verfasst von: Vincent J. Giolito
Robert C. Liden
Dirk van Dierendonck
Gordon W. Cheung
Publikationsdatum: 19.04.2020
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 3/2021
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04509-1

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