How Do Servant Leaders Affect Performance in Not-for-Profit Sector?
The Mediating Role of Interactional Justice in Servant Leadership and Performance Link
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Servant leadership, an emerging theory of leadership, is mainly characterized by leaders’ altruistic, ethical, and spiritual concern for their followers. In accordance with the gaps in the current literature, this study was an attempt to contribute to servant leadership research by empirically testing its relationship to performance (task performance and OCB) with interactional justice as a mediator in this relationship. A convenience sampling technique was used to collect data from (N=399) not-for-profit (NGO) representatives and found that interactional justice mediates the relationship between servant leadership and task performance and OCB.
Keywords:
Interactional justice, OCB, Servant leadership, Task performance
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