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Publication date: 25 July 2023

Aqib Jameel, Muhammad Mumtaz Khan and Syed Saad Ahmed

The study was conducted to understand how the moral identity of employees mediates the relationship between servant leadership and the moral disengagement of employees…

Abstract

Purpose

The study was conducted to understand how the moral identity of employees mediates the relationship between servant leadership and the moral disengagement of employees. Additionally, the study explores whether servant leadership's ability to build the moral identity of employees is contingent upon employees' perception of organizational politics.

Design/methodology/approach

The data were collected from 500 service sector-employed knowledge workers. Data analysis was done through structural equation modeling.

Findings

The study found servant leadership to be related to the moral identity of employees. Additionally, moral identity and moral disengagement were found to be negatively related. Moral identity was found to mediate the relationship between servant leadership and moral disengagement. Finally, the study found that the relationship between servant leadership and employees' moral identity was contingent upon their perception of organizational politics.

Originality/value

The study explored the previously unexplored mediating role of moral identity linking servant leadership to the moral disengagement of employees. The study also explained how the relationship between servant leadership and the moral identity of employees was contingent upon employees' perception of organizational politics.

Details

Kybernetes, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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