The moderating effect of employee personality traits on the relationship between servant leadership and employees' workplace attitudes and behaviors

In this study, it is aimed to investigate the relationships between servant leadership and workplace attitudes and behaviors (task performance, turnover intentions, sickness presenteeism, creativity) and to examine the moderating effect of core-self evaluations on these relationships. For this purpose, in order to examine these relations, data collected through questionnaires from 210 employees and 49 managers of 32 enterprises working in different fields of activity in the province of Trabzon were used. The findings obtained as a result of the analysis of these data show that servant leadership has a positive effect on task performance and creativity, but has no effect on turnover intentions and sickness presenteeism. However, it was observed that core-self evaluations had a moderating effect on the relationship between servant leadership, turnover intentions and sickness presenteeism, while no moderating effect was found on the relationship between servant leadership and task performance and creativity. In addition the results of the research show that turnover intentions negatively affects task performance and reveals that the interaction of turnover intentions, servant leadership and core-self evaluations partially mediates the relationship between task performance. Based on the results, this study contributes to research in this field by examining the effect of servant leadership on employees' workplace attitudes and behaviors, while filling an important gap in the literature by examining the moderating effect of core-self evaluations on these relationships.