The Relationship Between Servant Leadership and Job Satisfaction: The Mediating Effect of Job Empowerment

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between servant leadership and job satisfaction, and whether job empowerment will affect job satisfaction. Using the Army aviation unit subordinates as sample and 350 questionnaires were distributed. There were 321 effective questionnaires collected. After conducting data analysis, it was found that servant leadership had positive effect on job satisfaction, supervisors' job empowerment had positive effect on job satisfaction, and servant leadership had positive effect on job satisfaction through work empowerment. Finally, this study discusses about the relation of job satisfaction, and the initial research result of the work empowerment to influence the integration of job satisfaction. In the future, this study hopes to contribute in the leading behavior of Chinese organizations. Based on the results of this study, research limitations and future research was explained in the research process.