A Meta-Review of Servant Leadership: Construct, Correlates, and the Process

The goal of this article is to present qualitative and quantitative reviews servant leadership literature since its formal inception in 1970. Summarizing previous studies, we theorized explored issues concerning the conception relevance leadership, merits varied measurements, construct dimensionality, potential effects national culture on relationship between correlates. We developed theory distinguish from competing theories transformational leader-member exchange (LMX) examined direct incremental influence individual unit-level outcomes. To consolidate extant research guide future development tested a mediational process model linking Meta-analytic results supported distinctiveness showed individual-level outcomes, mediating trust fairness perceptions relationship.