Workplace mistreatment and spiritual leadership: new cure for ancient curse

Abstract

The present study proposed and tested a mediation model which investigated the direct and mediated effect of spiritual leadership on employee's group innovativeness via workplace bullying and tolerance to incivility as mediating variables, under the lens of spiritual leadership theory, SET and IM theory. Structural equation modelling was used to analyse data from 368 4- and 5-star hotels' full-time employees in Izmir and Bodrum regions of Turkey. The results show that spiritual leadership significantly predicted group innovativeness, and workplace bullying and tolerance to incivility partially mediated this relationship. The novel findings of our study enrich spiritual leadership-workplace mistreatment-employee performance nexus in hospitality literature.