Yucheng Zhang
A meta-analytic review of servant leadership consequences: The moderating roles of cultural factors
Zhang, Yucheng; Zheng, Yuyan; Zhang, Long; Xu, Shan; Liu, Xin; Chen, Wansi
Authors
Yuyan Zheng
Long Zhang
Shan Xu
Xin Liu
Wansi Chen
Abstract
The past decade has witnessed growing interests in empirically examining the effectiveness of servant leadership in management research. Our study reviews the literature on servant leadership and analyzes the relationship between servant leadership and its outcome variables. Drawing on social exchange theory, this study uses meta-analysis and find that servant leadership is positively related to followers’ job-related outcomes (e.g., psychological empowerment, organizational commitment, service quality), leader-related outcomes (e.g., leader effectiveness), and group-related outcomes (e.g., group service performance). Further, we find that the relationships between servant leadership and its outcomes are moderated by cultural factors (i.e., traditionality, masculinity, individualism, and power distance). Finally, we examine the incremental validity of servant leadership by taking transformational leadership into account and comparing their effects on job performance and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) via leader-member exchange (LMX). Implications for theory and practice are discussed, and an agenda for future research is proposed.
Citation
Zhang, Y., Zheng, Y., Zhang, L., Xu, S., Liu, X., & Chen, W. (2019). A meta-analytic review of servant leadership consequences: The moderating roles of cultural factors. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 38, 371-400. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-018-9639-z
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Dec 11, 2018 |
Publication Date | 2019 |
Deposit Date | Jan 23, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 8, 2020 |
Journal | Asia Pacific Journal of Management |
Print ISSN | 0217-4561 |
Electronic ISSN | 1572-9958 |
Publisher | Springer |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 38 |
Pages | 371-400 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-018-9639-z |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1339127 |
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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Asia Pacific journal of management. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-018-9639-z
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