A correlation of servant leadership, leader trust, and organizational trust
Leadership & Organization Development Journal
ISSN: 0143-7739
Article publication date: 1 January 2005
Abstract
Purpose
Aims to explore the relationship between employee perceptions of servant leadership and leader trust, as well as organizational trust.
Design/methodology.approach
Uses Laub's Organizational Leadership Assessment along with Nyhan and Marlowe's Organizational Trust Inventory.
Findings
Perceptions of servant leadership correlated positively with both leader trust and organizational trust. The study also found that organizations perceived as servant‐led exhibited higher levels of both leader trust and organizational trust than organizations perceived as non‐servant‐led.
Originality/value
The findings lend support to Greenleaf's view that servant leadership is an antecedent of leader and organizational trust, and to aspects of other servant leadership models.
Keywords
Citation
Joseph, E.E. and Winston, B.E. (2005), "A correlation of servant leadership, leader trust, and organizational trust", Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol. 26 No. 1, pp. 6-22. https://doi.org/10.1108/01437730510575552
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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