The Expected Role of Organizational Culture in the Relationship Between Servant Leadership and Employee Performance
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Servant Leadership, Standing Back, Forgiveness, Authenticity, Employee Performance, Organizational CultureAbstract
The current research aims to study the relationship between servant leadership and employee performance by emphasizing the moderating and mediating role of the organization's culture. As the business sector faces the challenges of competition all over the world, many researchers and writers have studied the relationship between the investigated variables (servant leadership, employee performance, and organizational culture) by studying the direct relationships between variables or studying the mediating role of organizational culture between the relationship of servant leadership and employee performance. After reviewing previous local and foreign research and studies, it was found that there is no research or study to show the moderating role of organizational culture in the relationship between servant leadership and employee performance. Both roles. Based on the foregoing, the research problem is represented by asking the following main question (What is the expected role of organizational culture in the relationship between servant leadership and employee performance?) The community of this research is represented by choosing Al-Zawraa State Company. The research community consisted of different administrative levels of working individuals, managers, heads of departments, and people's officials, which numbered (140) people, and the size of the research sample was (76) people. As (100) forms were distributed and only (79) were retrieved from them, (76) of them were valid for statistical analysis. The study reached several conclusions, including that organizational culture leads to moderating role and mediating role in the relationship between the dependent and independent variables.
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