Investigating the mediating role of job entanglement in the relationship between servant leadership and talent management with employee work engagement

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1 Master of Educational Management, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Mahalat, Iran.

2 . Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Mahalat, Iran.

3 Master's degree, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Background and Objective:This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the mediating role of Job Embeddedness in the relationship between servant leadership and talent management with employee work participation.Research Methodology: This research was in terms of the fundamental goal and in terms of the descriptive research method of the correlation type using the structural equation method. The research population included all the elementary school teachers of Kashan city in the academic year of 1403, 600 of whom were selected as a sample according to Morgan's table and using simple random sampling method. To collect data, the Congo Work Participation Questionnaire (1982), the Servant Leadership Questionnaire of Qolipour et al. (2018), the talent management of Ahmadi et al. (2018) andthe Job Embeddedness of Holtom, Mitchell, Lee, and Teed (2006) were used. The content validity of the questionnaire was approved by the supervisor and their reliability was 0.88, 0.86, 0.84, and 0.86, respectively. SPSS version 28 and SMART PLS version 3 were used to analyze the data.Findings: The findings of the research showed that servant leadership has a positive and direct effect on the work participation of employees, job entanglement has a positive and direct effect on the work participation of employees, Job Embeddedness has a positive and direct effect on the work participation of employees, servant leadership with the mediating role of Job Embeddedness has an indirect effect on the work participation of employees. Talent management with the mediating role of Job Embeddedness has an indirect effect on employees' work participation.Conclusion: Therefore, it can be said that servant leadership, talent management and Job Embeddedness are important and effective variables on employees' work participation.

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Applied Educational Leadership
Volume 6, Issue 4
December 2026

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  • Receive Date: 08 February 2025
  • Revise Date: 24 August 2025
  • Accept Date: 03 September 2025

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