Leadership Driven Job Crafting: Exploring the Mediating Role of Meaningfulness between Servant Leadership and Job Crafting

The current study was undertaken to ascertain the mediating role of meaningfulness linking servant leadership (SL) to job crafting behavior (JCB) of the employees. The study also  endeavors to find the association between meaningfulness and JCB. This study collected  data from 689 service sector emp...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Mumtaz Khan, Syed Saad Ahmed, Essa Khan, Tarique Mahmood, Samra Jawed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology 2021-06-01
Series:JISR Management and Social Sciences & Economics
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Online Access:https://jisrmsse.szabist.edu.pk/index.php/szabist/article/view/227
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Summary:The current study was undertaken to ascertain the mediating role of meaningfulness linking servant leadership (SL) to job crafting behavior (JCB) of the employees. The study also  endeavors to find the association between meaningfulness and JCB. This study collected  data from 689 service sector employees through survey design. Data were processed and analyzed through PLS-SMART and SPSS. mainly. The findings manifested a relation between  meaningfulness and employees’ job crafting behavior. Similarly, SL significantly impacted both  meaningfulness and employees’ job crafting behavior. The results also unraveled the mediating  role of meaningfulness between SL and JCB of the employees. The research has ascertained the  previously unexplored mediating role of meaningfulness between SL and JCB. It is also the first  study that attempted to explore meaningfulness as a stimulus to job crafting behavior.
ISSN:2616-7476
1998-4162