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This research examined the role of leader’s spiritual values in terms of the “servant leadership” in the process of promoting employee’s autonomous motivation and eudaemonic well-being. Sample consists of 265 Chinese supervisor-subordinate dyads recruited from a variety of industries in Taiwan. Spiritual values perceived by the subordinates, as well as the discrepancy between leader-subordinate perceptions, but not the leader’s self-perceptions of spiritual values, were found to contribute significantly beyond transactional leadership in predicting subordinate motivational autonomy and eudaemonic well-being, and subordinate autonomous motivations fully mediates the relationship between spiritual values and eudaemonic well-being.
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This research was supported by grant from the National Science Council, Taiwan (NSC 97-2410-H-224-002). The authors thank Mr. Chin-Yuan Yang for assistance in data collection and effort in earlier literature review.
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Chen, CY., Chen, CH.V. & Li, CI. The Influence of Leader’s Spiritual Values of Servant Leadership on Employee Motivational Autonomy and Eudaemonic Well-Being. J Relig Health 52, 418–438 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-011-9479-3
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