Servant Leadership and Machiavellian Followers: A Moderated Mediation Model

Despite promoting positive employee outcomes, servant leaders may become the victim of manipulation by followers. The current study investigates this underexplored side leadership examining employee-related outcomes interaction between and follower Machiavellianism through mediating mechanism exploitative manipulative behavior. It is argued that employees high in engage behavior to achieve subjective career success social power while working with a leader. We used PROCESS macro analyze our mediation moderated hypotheses, respectively. collected data time-lagged design (three-time lags) from 320 dyads (self peer) responses service sector organizations. results fully supported hypotheses. Limitations future research directions are also presented.