Resilience as a Bridge: Unpacking the Impact of Workplace Bullying on Servant Leadership in SMEs
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Servant Leadership, Employee Resilience, Workplace BullyingAbstract
Bullying at work is a serious organizational problem that has a detrimental effect on workers' productivity and well-being. This study looks at how servant leadership might improve employee resilience and lessen bullying in the workplace. A quantitative research design was used to gather information from 130 workers in a range of examined servant leadership effects on small and medium enterprises within Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Research reveals that servant leadership effectively boosts work-related resilience while simultaneously reducing workplace bullying perceptions. Research findings apply the Conservation of Resources Theory (COR) as their theoretical foundation. Resilience played a mediating role, which explained how servant leadership and bullying at work relate to each other. The collected data contributes to research about organizational behaviour and leadership while stressing the urgency of developing servant leadership principles to build supportive work environments. Serious Leadership stops workplace bullying through employee resilience that functions as a connecting factor. Servant Leadership serves as a single-click remedy that resolves all corporate issues and fraud schemes.
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