Entrepreneurship & Organization Management

College of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Walden University, USA

Publications

• Research   
  How Servant Leadership Relates to Conflict Management Styles at Work
  Author(s): Thomas B. Fields*
  
  Managing interpersonal conflict between employees and their supervisors continues to be challenging. Researchers have studied how leadership styles relate to conflict management in organizations, but little is known about how servant leadership relates to conflict management at work. Servant leadership is a management style in which one motivates his or her employees by serving them. The purpose of this study was to investigate how servant leadership dimensions exhibited by supervisors correlated with conflict management styles used by employees when employees experienced conflict with their supervisor. A web-based survey invitation was shared with social service employees resulting in a sample of 230 participants. Stepwise multiple regression analysis was used to determine if a predictive relationship existed between the servant leadership dimensions, measured by the Servant Leadersh.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2169-026X.2021.10.305

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