Relationship of servant leadership, ethical leadership and work engagement: The role of proactive personality as moderator

Relationship of servant leadership, ethical leadership and work engagement: The role of proactive personality as moderator

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between servant leadership ethical leadership and work engagement among support staff and to identify whether proactive personality moderate the relationship in one of Development Financial Institution (DFI) organization at Kuala Lumpur. Simpl...

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Relationship of servant leadership, ethical leadership and work engagement: The role of proactive personality as moderator
description The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between servant leadership ethical leadership and work engagement among support staff and to identify whether proactive personality moderate the relationship in one of Development Financial Institution (DFI) organization at Kuala Lumpur. Simple random sampling technique was used for this study where total number of 113 survey questionnaire forms was distributed to selected respondents which only 103 were usable for analysis. Preanalysis by using exploratory factor analysis found that all variables loading value was distributed consistently except for servant leadership. Post-analysis of correlation and regression analysis to test the hypotheses revealed that both ethical leadership and proactive personality has significant positive relationship towards work engagement meanwhile proactive personality negatively moderate the relationship between ethical leadership and work engagement. Based on the findings, this study provided suggestions and recommendations in terms of practical implications for organization and future academic research.
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spelling my-uum-etd.79042022-12-28T03:00:32Z Relationship of servant leadership, ethical leadership and work engagement: The role of proactive personality as moderator 2019 Fazly, Noordin Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between servant leadership ethical leadership and work engagement among support staff and to identify whether proactive personality moderate the relationship in one of Development Financial Institution (DFI) organization at Kuala Lumpur. Simple random sampling technique was used for this study where total number of 113 survey questionnaire forms was distributed to selected respondents which only 103 were usable for analysis. Preanalysis by using exploratory factor analysis found that all variables loading value was distributed consistently except for servant leadership. Post-analysis of correlation and regression analysis to test the hypotheses revealed that both ethical leadership and proactive personality has significant positive relationship towards work engagement meanwhile proactive personality negatively moderate the relationship between ethical leadership and work engagement. Based on the findings, this study provided suggestions and recommendations in terms of practical implications for organization and future academic research. 2019 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/7904/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/7904/1/s821903_1.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/7904/2/s821903_2.pdf text eng public masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia Abidin, S.N.S.Z. (2017). The effect of perceived authentic leadership on employee engagement. Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Environment Management, 2(4), 29-47. Ahmad, I. & Gao, Y. (2018). Ethical leadership and work engagement: the roles of psychological empowerment and power distance orientation. 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