| Abstract [eng] |
The Relationship Between Servant Leadership to Stress Experienced at Work and Job Insecurity Daumantė Balsevičiūtė Vilnius, Lithuania Vilnius University 2019, June Number of pages 69 Although the job insecurity and stress experienced at work are related, there is still insufficient number of scientific justification and research of this area, as well as area of combination of job insecurity and experienced stress at work with servant leadership. Stress experienced at work is related to other leaderships, such as transformative, transactional or autocratic, but it is not related to servant leadership. Therefore, it is very important to distinguish which leadership can reduce job insecurity and stress experienced at work and vice versa – increase it, since the manager’s behavior can also lead to a decrease or increase of job insecurity and stress experienced at work of his employees. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify the relation between servant leadership to stress experienced at work and job insecurity. The sample comprised of 311 subjects, including 160 men (51.4%) and 151 women (48.6%). The age range varied from 21 to 65 years (mean – 36.62, standard deviation – 11.98). All subjects were Lithuanian residents who work in various Lithuanian and international companies, as well as in the public sector. Participation was voluntary. The tools used for the study were Job Insecurity Scale to assess the qualitative and quantitative job insecurity, The Workplace Stress Scale measures stress experienced at work and the Servant Leadership Survey assesses the servant leadership. The results of the study showed that servant leadership is related to stress experienced at work and job insecurity. The used servant leadership decreases the stress experienced at work and job insecurity. The larger job insecurity, the larger the experienced stress at work. It was found that socio – demographic variables have relations to servant leadership, stress experienced at work and job insecurity. Women feel quantitative job insecurity more than men do. Employees in other than managerial positions experience more stress at work than employees in managerial positions. Employees who do not work by their specialty feel quantitative job insecurity more than employees who work by their specialty. Employees who work according to fixed-term feel job insecurity more than employees who work according to non-term employment contract. Key words: servant leadership, stress experienced at work, job insecurity, workplace stress, relation. |
