Do Servant Leadership Self-Efficacy and Benevolence Values Predict Employee Performance within the Banking Industry in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Using a Serial Mediation Approach

Tasmeer Mujeeb, Noor Ullah Khan, Asfia Obaid, Guiling Yue, Hanieh Alipour Bazkiaei and Noor Azam Samsudin
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Tasmeer Mujeeb: Department of HRM, NUST Business School, National University of Sciences and Technology Scholars Ave, H-12, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Noor Ullah Khan: Department of HRM, NUST Business School, National University of Sciences and Technology Scholars Ave, H-12, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Asfia Obaid: Department of HRM, NUST Business School, National University of Sciences and Technology Scholars Ave, H-12, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Guiling Yue: School of Human Resource Development & Psychology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru 81310, Malaysia
Hanieh Alipour Bazkiaei: Faculty of Entrepreneurship and Business, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK), Kota Bharu 16100, Malaysia
Noor Azam Samsudin: Faculty of Business & Accountancy Universiti Selangor (UNISEL), Shah Alam 40000, Malaysia

Administrative Sciences, 2021, vol. 11, issue 4, 1-29

Abstract: Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant implications to the workplace and highly impacted employee performance in every organization. In contemporary research, the scholars agree that leadership is one of the critical antecedents to predict employee performance in organizations. However, research is needed to investigate the mediating role of integral factors such as benevolence values (BV) and self-efficacy (SE) in predicting employee performance in the workplace. This study aimed to investigate the impact of key antecedents on employee performance in the banking industry. The findings reveal that the key antecedents, e.g., servant leadership (SL), self-efficacy (SE), and benevolence values (BV), have a direct positive relationship with employee performance (EP). Moreover, multiple indirect paths were tested, including serial mediation. This study used a quantitative methodology based on the positivist paradigm. A sample of 560 employees was randomly chosen. A survey questionnaire was distributed among them, and 400 were returned with a response rate of 70%, and the clean data of 400 employees was used for data analysis. The structural equation modeling (SEM) technique was employed using Smart PLS 3.3.3 software. The results confirmed that both SE and BV mediate the relationship between SL and EP. Likewise, BV mediates the relationship between SE and EP, and SE mediates the relationship between SL and BV. Finally, in serial mediation, the relationship between SL and EP is also established via SE and BV together as mediators.

Keywords: employee performance (EP); servant leadership (SL); self-efficacy (SE); benevolence values (BV) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L M M0 M1 M10 M11 M12 M14 M15 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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