Well-being of Servant Leaders: A Social Capital Lens

主講人 : 江洲 教授

Servant leaders are known to prioritise the interests and wellbeing of their employees, but the wellbeing implications for the leaders themselves remain less clear. Through a social capital lens, we explore how and when servant leaders maintain their wellbeing. We propose that servant behaviours can equip leaders with relational and instrumental social capital, enhancing positive and mitigating negative wellbeing outcomes. These effects may depend on servant leaders' self-assessed competence and warmth. In this initial study, we collected three-wave data from team leaders, their supervisors, and team members. Our findings suggest that servant leaders are likely to develop stronger social exchanges with their teams (relationship-based) and receive better performance ratings (instrument-based), which ultimately improves wellbeing. While self-perceived warmth strengthens the relationship pathway, self-perceived competence suppresses the instrument pathway. By shifting the focus to the implications of servant leadership for leaders themselves, we offer a social capital perspective to understand its consequences and identify new mechanisms and boundary conditions.

主講人簡介：

江洲是皇家墨爾本理工大學商業與法律學院工商管理系的教授和系主任。江教授對職業發展和幸福感有著濃厚的興趣，他的研究重點是人們如何主動、創造性、安全和可持續地應對復雜的環境，在工作和職業生涯領域取得了豐富的研究成果。他擔任Human Resource Management、Applied Psychology: An International Review、The International Journal of Human Resource Management等多個國際一流期刊的副主編。