ABSTRACT

This study presents a model for the impact of servant leadership on work engagement of staff in academic settings. Moreover, the paper introduces intrinsic motivation, psychological ownership, and person-job fit as intervening mechanisms between servant leadership and work engagement. Our data were gathered from academic staff working in twelve Palestinian universities. We used partial least squares SEM to investigate the hypotheses. Results indicate that the link between servant leadership and academics’ work engagement is not straightforward. Intrinsic motivation, psychological ownership, and person-job fit of academic staff had a full mediating effect among the examined variables. The paper provides evidence that servant leadership is a promising style for higher education. Moreover, the paper offers important implications for administrators and policymakers in higher education about the role of servant leadership in promoting academics’ work engagement.

摘要

这项研究提出了一个模型，用于在学术环境中仆人领导对员工工作投入的影响。此外，本文还介绍了内在动机，心理所有权和人身健康作为仆人领导和工作投入之间的干预机制。我们的数据来自在十二所巴勒斯坦大学工作的学术人员。我们使用偏最小二乘SEM来研究假设。结果表明，仆人领导与学者的工作投入之间的联系并不直接。在研究变量之间，内在动机，心理归属感和学术人员的工作适合度具有完全的中介作用。本文提供的证据表明，仆人领导是高等教育的一种有前途的方式。此外，