The role of pious leadership in reducing social laziness by analyzing the mediating role of job attachment

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between pious leadership and reducing social laziness with an analysis of the mediating role of job attachment.

The present study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of data analysis and is a survey. This study was conducted on a sample of 259 principals and employees of the Department of Education and all executive agents of secondary schools in the second district of Rasht. For data collection, the Pious Leadership Questionnaire based on Caldwell et al. (2014), Saffarinia Social Laziness Questionnaire (2012) and Shuffle and Baker (2003) Standard Job Attachment Questionnaire were used. In this study, in order to evaluate the validity and model validity and reliability of the research, confirmatory factor analysis and factor loading coefficient, Cronbach's alpha, combined reliability and convergent validity were used and structural equations were used to test the research hypotheses.

Data analysis showed that there is an inverse and significant relationship between all dimensions of pious leadership and social laziness. The existence of a positive and significant relationship between pious leadership and job attachment is also confirmed. Also, a negative and significant relationship between job attachment and social laziness was confirmed.

According to the findings, it can be said that the application of pious leadership leads to higher levels of participation, greater commitment to excellence and more support for innovation in the organization, improves organizational performance and extra-role behaviors and significantly reduces social laziness.