The Effect of Servant Leadership on Psychological Ownership in Staff with Mediating Role Perceived Organizational Support

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university of kashan

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The purpose of this research is investigating the effect of servant leadership on psychological ownership with the mediating role of perceived organizational support in University of Kashan employees. Research type is descriptive correlational. The statistical population consist of all 547 employees of University of Kashan which 252 of them were chosen as sample by Cochran formula and simple random sampling method. In order to gathering data, servant leadership questionnaire with 28 items, psychological ownership questionnaire with 54 items and organizational support questionnaire with 8 items were used based on five point Likert scales. Content validity of questionnaires were confirmed by experts’ viewpoints and construct validity was confirmed through conformational factor analysis. Cronbach alpha coefficient for servant leadership, psychological ownership and organizational support were 0.75, 0.82 and 071. Data was analyzed in two level of descriptive & inferential statistics through SPSS & Amos software. Results showed that the mean of servant leadership, psychological ownership and perceived organizational support were upper than average. Servant leadership and organizational has support have positive and significant effects on psychological ownership (r=0.33, 0.34). Also the mediating role of organizational support on psychological ownership was confirmed. Considering the significant effect of servant leadership and perceived organizational support on psychological ownership, it is suggested that organizations in general, and specially universities, and other develop servant leadership and perceived organizational support as the important part of their plans so that they can increase psychological ownership sense among employees and managers.

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Organizational Behaviour Studies Quarterly
Volume 7, Issue 4 - Serial Number 28
serial no.28
February 2019
Pages 1-30

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