Impact Of Servant Leadership on Organisational Performance: A Moderated Mediation Analysis

Abstract

The aim of this research is to provide insight into the effectiveness of Servant Leadership practices with respect to organizational performance, the role of structural empowerment as a mediator, and the effect of organizational culture as a moderator. The existing literature on Servant Leadership only talks about the popular link that Servant Leadership has with performance while there are potentially underlying mechanisms to Servant Leadership – performance link. Considering this gap, the research examines the intermediary role of structural empowerment and in doing so, emphasize on the importance of Self Determination Theory that serves as a framework for performance. The study also delves further into how culture impacts organizational dynamics and performance metrics underpinning the social exchange theory. Present study implemented a quantitative research design and chased the post positivist paradigm Supported by research question and the development to theory is deductive as this study intends to investigated the causal relationship among the research variable. This is multi-source mono method quantitative research by applied time lagged framework to attain primary data by following a survey strategy through multiple Self conducted questionaries. The selected population of this study is manufacturing industry Pakistan in Punjab province. The sample for this research encompasses 40 manufacturing industry and 400 employees, nominated to share a comprehensive representation of the target population. This research study managed the systematic framework of analysis by utilizing SPSS and smart PLS software. The findings indicated that structural empowerment established a mediated positive relationship between servant leadership and organizational performance. The result investigated that servant leadership Can serve the aspiration as a result-oriented leadership strategies to Elevate structural empowerment and organizational performance.