Pretesting Video Speeches for an Experiment on the Effects of Two Dimensions of Servant Leadership on Performance and Examining the Strength of Potential Instruments

The concept of servant leadership has received growing interest in recent years. To date, however, there are no clean causal investigations of the effects of servant leadership. We are the first to use an instrumental variable approach in the context of servant leadership and created new material based on the literature. This pre-study thus serves to test how followers perceive the leadership manipulation and to examine the strength of our potential instrumental variables. We aim to recruit at least 100 working-age individuals using a common panel provider. Our hypotheses will be tested by means of an experimental online study with two groups (authenticity and stewardship vs. neutral speech). unknown other