Song, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-0969-4091, Ni, D., Zhu, J. et al. (2 more authors) (2024) Servant Leadership and Employee Gratitude: The Moderating Role of Employee Narcissism. Journal of Business and Psychology, 39 (4). pp. 1005-1021. ISSN 0889-3268
Abstract
In this paper, we develop novel theoretical insights regarding employees’ reactions to servant leadership. Drawing on social exchange theory and the servant leadership literature, we propose that the needs–supplies fit between servant leaders and narcissistic employees can urge narcissistic employees to feel more grateful in response to servant leadership. In turn, employee gratitude is positively associated with organizational citizenship behavior and negatively associated with workplace deviance. We test our model across two studies, including a two-wave field survey study of 344 employees and their 80 leaders (Study 1) and a scenario-based experimental study of 100 participants (Study 2). The findings support our theoretical model that, at a higher (versus lower) level of employee narcissism, servant leadership enhances organizational citizenship behavior and reduces workplace deviance through enhanced employee gratitude. We discuss our contributions to the servant leadership literature and present practical implications for organizations.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023. This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use (https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/policies/accepted-manuscript-terms), but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-023-09928-1. |
Keywords: | Servant Leadership, Narcissism, Gratitude, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Workplace Deviance |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 21 Dec 2023 11:58 |
Last Modified: | 02 Jan 2025 01:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s10869-023-09928-1 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:206855 |