Servant leadership, employee resilience, and workplace bullying: An investigation in Somalia contexts

The purpose of this thesis study is to examine the dynamics of workplace bullying by focusing on Somali organizations and to investigate how servant leadership and employee resilience affect this phenomenon. In this empirical study, in which a cross-sectional research design was performed, statistical analyzes were carried out with data obtained from a total of 324 people working in different sectors in Somalia. In this study, first correlation test and then structural equation modeling (SEM) were used to test the study's hypotheses. In this regard, direct and indirect effects were analyzed. The findings show that servant leadership has a negative impact on workplace bullying. Further, employee resilience mediates the relationship between servant leadership and workplace bullying. This thesis study contributes to the literature by examining the relationship between servant leadership, employee resilience and workplace bullying in a different cultural and socio-economic context such as Somalia. Practical implications of this study are discussed along with some research limitations.