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When the leader carries your career: a serial mediation testing on the role of servant leadership in career competencies and career adaptability of followers

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  • Asif Hussain Samo
  • Moomal Baig Bughio
  • Quratulain Nazeer Ahmed
  • Muzafar Ali Shah
  • Shafique Ahmed

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Purpose - The literature on leadership is quite extensive; however, this study explains the impact of leadership styles on career success, career competence and career adaptability in the health sector. It explains the impact of servant leadership on career competence and career adaptability with a serial mediating impact of psychological safety and proactive behavior as well as self-efficacy and proactive behavior. Design/methodology/approach - It is a quantitative study, and it tested the suggested model in hospitals in Pakistan. The data were collected from 310 health practitioners from the hospitals, and it was analyzed with partial least square structural equation modeling. Findings - The findings suggest that psychological safety and proactive behavior serially mediate the impact of servant leaders on career competence and career adaptability; hence, servant leadership tends to increase career competence and career adaptability of individuals. One more serial mediation has been tested with positive results between servant leadership and career competence and career adaptability. Originality/value - The study takes a very well theoretically linked model which tests the serial mediating path of servant leadership to career competencies and career adaptability.

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  • Asif Hussain Samo & Moomal Baig Bughio & Quratulain Nazeer Ahmed & Muzafar Ali Shah & Shafique Ahmed, 2023. "When the leader carries your career: a serial mediation testing on the role of servant leadership in career competencies and career adaptability of followers," Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 42(2), pages 406-423, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:agjsrp:agjsr-12-2022-0279
    DOI: 10.1108/AGJSR-12-2022-0279
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