Leadership Driven Job Crafting: Exploring the Mediating Role of Meaningfulness between Servant Leadership and Job Crafting
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https://doi.org/10.31384/jisrmsse/2021.19.1.7Keywords:
Job Crafting, Servant leadership, Meaningfulness, Service SectorAbstract
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.
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