The Impact of Servant Leadership on Subordinate’s Helping Behavior: Mediating Role of Energy and Moderating Effect of Family-Work Enrichment

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of servant leadership on helping behavior of subordinates, and the effects of servant leadership on helping behavior of subordinates through the energy. In this process, the moderating effect of subordinate‘s family-work enrichment is identified between servant leadership and subordinate’s energy together. For this purpose, hypothesis and research model were set based on the preceding studies on servant leadership, energy, helping behavior and family-work enrichment. To verify this, empirical analysis was conducted based on the questionnaires collected from ROK Army (A total of 255 dyadic data was used for analysis). As a result of the study, theoretical implications were provided by clarifying the relationship between servant leadership of supervisors, helping behavior, energy, and family-work enrichment of subordinates. Specifically, it was confirmed that servant leadership had a significant effect on helping behavior. In addition, the effect of servant leadership on helping behavior was confirmed through the energy of the subordinates. Also, the effect of family-work enrichment on the relationship between servant leadership and energy of subordinates was verified. through this, new moderating variables affecting the effectiveness of servant leadership were identified. In addition, this study suggested the direction of future research by verifying that family-work enrichment can control the relationship between the servant leadership of the supervisor and the energy of the subordinates. Finally, based on the results of the study, practical implications that can be applied to organizations are presented and limitations of the study are presented.