Servant Leadership Employee Work Engagement and Organizational Commitment: Psychological Safety and Gratitude Perspectives

Abstract

Employee is company's most important asset Increasing employee engagement and willingness to stay in the organization is an important issue for business leaders today But it is not easy so leaders must think about how to lead them and motivate them to find meaning in their work This study focuses on servant leadership: a supervisor leads employees by demonstrating emotional healing creating value for the team empowering helping subordinate grow and putting subordinates first It aims to understand whether servant leadership affect employees’ psychological safety and gratitude Moreover it seeks to explore the effects of psychological safety and gratitude on work engagement and organizational commitment 499 questionnaires were collected Excluding 67 invalid questionnaires 432 valid questionnaires were statistically analyzed using SPSS Statistics 17 0 and SmartPLS The results were as follows: 1 Emotional healing creating value for the team and helping the subordinates grow were positively related to psychological safety while empowering and putting subordinates first was not 2 Emotional healing creating value for the team empowering helping the subordinates grow and putting subordinates first were positively related to gratitude 3 Psychological safety was positively related to work engagement and organizational commitment 4 Gratitude was positively related to employees' work engagement and organizational commitment

Date of Award	2020
Original language	English
Supervisor	Hsien-Ta Li (Supervisor)