Mr. Hamidullah Qudratzai and Dr. Habib Gul
Volume 5 Issue 2 | Jun 2022
DOI: 10.31841/KJEMS.2022.117
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Abstract
The review on employee engagement shows the importance of leadership and trust. Literature on leadership researchers suggest the influential role of Servant leadership in employee engagement. According to emerging literature, there is a scarcity of studies with empirical relationships to servant leadership and employee engagement in general, and in developing countries in particular. Grounded in social exchange theory, the purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of servant leadership on employee engagement. Moreover, this paper highlights the role of trust as mediating mechanism among the selected variables. To test the relationship between the examined variables, four hypotheses were developed and validated through quantitative methodology by employing structure equation modelling through SPSS software. For this purpose, data were collected from employees working in different public sectors of Afghanistan. Data collection was made possible through an online data collection method with the assistance of google forms. Links were shared among employees. A total of 237 responses were received and analyzed for the proposed relationships among constructs. The results of this study revealed that servant leadership significantly influences employee engagement. Findings also show that trust positively mediates between servant leadership and employee engagement.