Spiritual Leadership and Employee Performance: The Role of Employee Well-Being as a Mediator

Spiritual Leadership and Employee Performance: The Role of Employee Well-Being as a Mediator | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Article Spiritual Leadership and Employee Performance: The Role of Employee Well-Being as a Mediator Bülent Çetinkaya, Lütfi Sürücü This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7322000/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Under Review Version 1 posted 4 You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract In today's global competitive environment, employee performance is critical for organisations to gain a sustainable competitive advantage. There is a growing demand for research focused on how employee performance can be improved. In this context, the purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between spiritual leadership, employee well-being, and employee performance. Data were collected from 409 public sector employees and then analysed using SPSS 27 and AMOS 25 software. The results indicate that spiritual leadership and employee well-being have a significant impact on employee performance. Additionally, it was found that employee well-being plays a mediating role in the effect of spiritual leadership on employee performance. These findings provide theoretical insights and practical recommendations on how spiritual leadership can improve employee performance. Health sciences/Health occupations Biological sciences/Psychology Social science/Psychology Spiritual Leadership Employee Well-Being Employee Performance Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. The research reported in this article was conducted following the ethical guidelines of European Leadership University. Ethical approval was obtained from the European Leadership University Ethics Committee (ALU-ETK-2025-01/08-01) on January 08, 2025. There was no specific approval number attached to the approval. It adheres strictly to ethical standards aimed at safeguarding the rights of human participants, including privacy, confidentiality, informed consent, dignity, protection, and voluntary participation. All processes and procedures followed in this research align with the ethical principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki (1964). This approval covers every aspect of the study, such as participant recruitment, data collection and analysis, informed consent procedures, and measures to ensure confidentiality, as specified in the approved protocol. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Under Review Version 1 posted Editorial decision: Revision requested 09 Sep, 2025 Editor assigned by journal 09 Sep, 2025 Submission checks completed at journal 19 Aug, 2025 First submitted to journal 07 Aug, 2025 You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. Our growing team is made up of researchers and industry professionals working together to solve the most critical problems facing scientific publishing. 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