The effect of servant leadership on work-related well-being: The mediating role of work flow and work engagement

The study aimed to explore the effect of servant leadership (SL) on work-related well-being of employee (WWB), and also investigated the mediating role of work flow (WF) and work engagement (WE) between servant leadership and work-related well-being in China. Participants in the study consisted of 338 employees of organizations who took part in an online questionnaire. The results showed that servant leadership had positive effect on work-related well-being of employee, and both work flow and work engagement mediated the influence of servant leadership on work-related well-being. Our results show that leaders' servant leadership style is important to their followers' work-related well-being, and through work flow and work engagement can enhance the level of their work-related well-being. © 2017 IEEE.