An examination of the light and dark antecedents of servant leadership

Nathan Mark Eva; Sen Sendjaya; Kendall Herbert; Mulyadi Robin

doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2017.12823abstract

Abstract

This research seeks to identify personality antecedents that lead to servant leadership. Using three waves of multi-source, multi-level data obtained from 151 employees from 39 teams in a large Australian transportation firm, we found that leader’s pro-social motivation and Machiavellianism positively predicted servant leadership behaviors and leader’s narcissism and psychopathy were negatively related to servant leadership behaviors. However, the leader’s core self- evaluation and moral attentiveness were not related to servant leadership behaviors. In addition, we found that servant leadership increases employees’ duty orientation and reduces their interpersonal workplace deviant behaviors.

Original language	English
Number of pages	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2017.12823abstract
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2017 - Atlanta, United States of America Duration: 4 Aug 2017 → 8 Aug 2017 Conference number: 77th

Conference

Conference	Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2017
Abbreviated title	AoM 2017
Country/Territory	United States of America
City	Atlanta
Period	4/08/17 → 8/08/17

Keywords

Leadership Antecedents
Servant Leadership
Pro Social Motivation

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