Positive Supervisor Behaviors and Employee Performance: The Serial Mediation of Workplace Spirituality and Work Engagement

Jun 7, 2026

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Organizational research emphasizes supervisors’ role in shaping employee well-being and performance. Guided by a motivational approach, the study tests whether positive supervisor behaviors enhance outcomes by triggering workplace spirituality and work engagement. Using survey data from 330 Italian employees, findings show supervisor integrity and responsible behaviors improve employee performance directly. Positive supervisor behaviors also affect performance indirectly through partial work engagement and serial mediation via workplace spirituality and work engagement, highlighting responsive, honest supervision as a route to stronger performance.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages8

Reading Time20 min

Introduction

Positive supervisor behaviors and leadership foundations

Motivational mechanisms and study focus

FAQs

What direct relationship does the study find between supervisor behaviors and employee performance?

Supervisor integrity and responsible behaviors show a positive effect on employee performance directly.

How do work engagement and workplace spirituality mediate the effect of positive supervisor behaviors?

Positive supervisor behaviors influence performance indirectly through partial mediation of work engagement and through a serial mediation sequence involving workplace spirituality and work engagement.

What data and sample size were used to test the proposed model?

Data were collected from 330 Italian employees.

Jun 7, 2026

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