| Currently, little is known about servant leadership and its relationship with meaningfulness, safety, and availability as it relates to Kahn's (1990) definition of employee engagement. Furthermore, definitions of servant leadership have varied over the past 30 years, making it difficult to clarify what it means to be a servant leader. For servant leaders to ensure employees are fully engaged in the workplace and to see if a relationship between servant leadership and meaningfulness, safety, and availability exists, a field-based, survey design with multiple regression analyses was conducted controlling for gender. A convenience sample consisted of full-time employees at a financial cooperative in the Charleston, South Carolina, area. The research findings align with most of the minimal literature that exists with respect to servant leadership and employee engagement---meaningfulness, safety, and availability. When controlling for participant gender and leader's gender, servant leadership has a significant positive relationship with meaningfulness and safety but not with availability. |
