Empirical Study on the Effect of Servant Leadership on Employee Performance: The Mediating Effect of Employee Needs

DOI

10.2991/itms-15.2015.306How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Servant leadership; Employees' needs; Employee performance

Abstract

Leadership behavior is an important factor affecting employees' performance. This research takes employees in a certain household appliance retailer as research subjects, and the employee's needs as mediated variable. This paper makes an empirical analysis on the paths and mechanisms in which servant leadership affects employee performance. On the basis of reading numerous literature, this paper proposes 10 research hypotheses. By designing and issuing research questionnaires, collecting relevant data, utilizing the SPSS17.0 to take on the reliability and validity analysis, correlation analysis, regression analysis, etc., these 10 hypotheses are testified, which gives a further explanation of the influential mechanism among the servant leadership, employees' needs and employee performance. This helps to strengthen the servant leadership, fulfill employees' real need and provide management suggestions for the improvement of employee performance.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Mengmeng Li
AU  - Fengxia Wang
AU  - Daoli Wang
PY  - 2015/11
DA  - 2015/11
TI  - Empirical Study on the Effect of Servant Leadership on Employee Performance: The Mediating Effect of Employee Needs
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Industrial Technology and Management Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1253
EP  - 1257
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/itms-15.2015.306
DO  - 10.2991/itms-15.2015.306
ID  - Li2015/11
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