Effects of Servant Leadership on Psychological Capitals and Productivities of Employees

Year 2020, Volume: 34 Issue: 2, 273 - 291, 13.04.2020

Elif Baykal

https://doi.org/10.16951/atauniiibd.533275

Cited By: 4

Abstract

Focusing on human
strength and flourishing, positive organizational behavior opened a new era in organizational
behavior studies and reshaped scholars’ and practitioners’ demands from
leadership. More human focused leaders have become acceptable and popular
including servant leadership, one of the main points we have focused in this
study. In our research model, being inspired from positive organizational
behavior and one of its famous constructs, positive psychological capacities;
the developable, measurable and managable psychological powers of individuals, we
designed a model testing effects of servant leadership on psychological capacities
of individuals in organizational settings and psychological capitals effect on
employee productivity. We tested our model on white collar workers in İstanbul
region of Turkey, by applying face to face and online surveys. Later, we
analyzed our data in SPSS 20.0 program and we found that as we have supposed servant
leadership behavior of leaders has a positive effect on positive psychological
capacities of individuals which in turn effects positively their
productivities.

Keywords

Positive Organizational Behavior, Servant Leadership, Psychological Capital

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