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LINKING SERVANT LEADERSHIP WITH EMPLOYEE INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR THE INTERVENING ROLE OF LEADERSHIP TRUST

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/ger.2023(VIII-II).30      10.31703/ger.2023(VIII-II).30      Published : Jun 2023

Linking Servant Leadership with Employee Innovative Behavior: The Intervening Role of Leadership Trust

Abstract

    A business's ability to grow and gain a competitive advantage mainly depends on its workforce's inventiveness. However, the connection or processes behind the creative activity of employees and servant leadership (SL) have yet to be the subject of considerable study. This study, grounded on the LMX theory, looks at the correlation between worker creativity and SL from the standpoint of the employee-leadership relationship. It also explores the mediating function of leadership trust. Five hundred workers in Peshawar, Pakistan, provided information. With the data we had gathered, we ran structural equation modeling and hierarchical regression analysis using Amos 24 and SPSS 26.0. The outcome demonstrated that leadership trust was an intervening factor in the positive association between servant leadership and workers' creative endeavors.

    Hierarchical Regression Analysis, Structural Equation Modeling, Employee Innovation, Servant Leadership

    (1) Syed Hidayat Ullah Shah
    Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Management Sciences, Qurtuba University Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Fahad Khan Afridi
    Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences, Qurtuba University Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Sajid Rahman Khattak
    Assistant Professor, Institute of Business & Management Sciences, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
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Cite this article

APA

    APA : Shah, S. H. U., Afridi, F. K., & Khattak, S. R. (2023). Linking Servant Leadership with Employee Innovative Behavior: The Intervening Role of Leadership Trust. Global Economics Review, VIII(II), 414-420. https://doi.org/10.31703/ger.2023(VIII-II).30

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Shah, Syed Hidayat Ullah, Fahad Khan Afridi, and Sajid Rahman Khattak. 2023. "Linking Servant Leadership with Employee Innovative Behavior: The Intervening Role of Leadership Trust." Global Economics Review, VIII (II): 414-420 doi: 10.31703/ger.2023(VIII-II).30

HARVARD

    HARVARD : SHAH, S. H. U., AFRIDI, F. K. & KHATTAK, S. R. 2023. Linking Servant Leadership with Employee Innovative Behavior: The Intervening Role of Leadership Trust. Global Economics Review, VIII, 414-420.

MHRA

    MHRA : Shah, Syed Hidayat Ullah, Fahad Khan Afridi, and Sajid Rahman Khattak. 2023. "Linking Servant Leadership with Employee Innovative Behavior: The Intervening Role of Leadership Trust." Global Economics Review, VIII: 414-420

MLA

    MLA : Shah, Syed Hidayat Ullah, Fahad Khan Afridi, and Sajid Rahman Khattak. "Linking Servant Leadership with Employee Innovative Behavior: The Intervening Role of Leadership Trust." Global Economics Review, VIII.II (2023): 414-420 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Shah, Syed Hidayat Ullah, Afridi, Fahad Khan, and Khattak, Sajid Rahman (2023), "Linking Servant Leadership with Employee Innovative Behavior: The Intervening Role of Leadership Trust", Global Economics Review, VIII (II), 414-420

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Shah, Syed Hidayat Ullah, Fahad Khan Afridi, and Sajid Rahman Khattak. "Linking Servant Leadership with Employee Innovative Behavior: The Intervening Role of Leadership Trust." Global Economics Review VIII, no. II (2023): 414-420. https://doi.org/10.31703/ger.2023(VIII-II).30