Open AccessMediating Role of Job Work Environment between the Relationship of Servant Leadership and Faculty Retention in Higher Education
Author(s) -
Aneela Sheikh,
Anees Janee Ali,
Muhammad Akram Soomro
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
academic journal of social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2521-0149
pISSN - 2519-7983
DOI - 10.54692/ajss.2020.04041394
Subject(s) - servant leadership , work environment , path analysis (statistics) , psychology , work (physics) , management , population , pedagogy , job satisfaction , social psychology , sociology , leadership style , engineering , mathematics , statistics , demography , mechanical engineering , economics
Current study aims to explore the mediating role of job work environmentbetween the relationship ofservant leadership and faculty retention.Thepopulation of this study consists of all fulltime faculty members of four privatehigher educationinstitutes of Lahore, Pakistan.The total number of population consists of 2,230 full time facultymembers. A sample of 330 faculty memberswere drawn through clusterrandom sampling technique.The data collected was analyzed using SPSS version 23.Theoretically, this study has been conducted under the domain of socialexchange theory(SET).Themediation of job work environment was checked through Baron and Kenny path analysis procedure, the results reveled that servant leadership has a positive significant impact on faculty retention and job work environment, and job work environment partially mediates the relationship betweenservant leadershipandfaculty retention. Such type of study should also be conducted for public universities and other higher education institutes.