Abstract:

Servant leadership is a modern leadership approach that is subject to increasing number of research in recent years. This study examines the servant leadership behaviors of department heads and its relationship with leader-member exchange at a state university in Turkey. The dimensions of servant leadership adopted for the study are love, humility, altruism, vision, trust, empowerment and service. The dimensions of leader-member exchange are effect, loyalty, contribution and professional respect. The data has been collected from 20 department heads and 210 academic personnel. The research uses Servant Leadership Assessment Instrument of Robert Steven Dennis (2004) and Leader-Member Exchange Instrument of Liden and Maslyn (1998). Since the data set is not normally distributed, non-parametric Spearman Correlation Analysis is used to test hypotheses. The research findings indicate that there’s a positive and linear relationship between the servant leadership and the leader member exchange as well as the servant leadership and the dimensions of leader-member exchange

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