Analyzing the Effect of Humble Leadership Style on Human Resource Productivity: The Mediating Role of Psychological Security

Abstract

Human resource productivity is one of the fundamental strategies to increase the performance and survival of today's organizations. Hence, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of humble leadership on human resource productivity with the mediating role of psychological security at Lorestan University. In terms of purpose, the present study is an applied research which is of the causal type. The statistical population of the study was 440 employees of Lorestan University, based on Krejcie and Morgan's table, from among whom a sample of 205 people was selected by stratified random sampling. In order to measure the variables of the research, Owens et al’s humble leadership (2013), Carmeli et al’s psychological security (2010) and Hersey and Goldsmith 's (1980) human resource productivity questionnaires have been used. The reliability of the questionnaires was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha. In this research, descriptive and inferential statistical methods have been used. Additionally, to analyze the research data, structural equation modeling and pls software have been employed. The findings demonstrated that humble leadership, when coupled with psychological security, exerts a positive influence on human resource productivity.

Keywords

• leadership
• humble leadership
• psychological security
• human resource productivity