Servant Leadership Influence on Well-Being Kathleen Bentein and Alexandra Panaccio Contents Introduction ....................................................................................... 2 Methodology ...................................................................................... 4 Servant Leadership and Well-Being: An Overview of the Empirical Literature ................ 5 Servant Leadership and Hedonic Well-Being ................................................ 6 Servant Leadership and Eudaimonic Well-Being ............................................ 7 Servant Leadership and Ill-Being ............................................................. 9 Servant Leadership and Well-Being: Theoretical Mechanisms .................................. 10 Servant Leadership and Well-Being: What to Do Next? ........................................ 15 References ........................................................................................ 19 Abstract Servant leadership theory puts a strong emphasis on leading by serving followers that is unique among leadership approaches and explicitly posits that organiza- tional performance is a by-product of employees’ well-being. However, the empirical literature has only begun to explore the link between servant leadership and well-being, and our understanding of this relationship remains underdevel- oped. The current chapter seeks to provide an overview of theory and empirical evidence on servant leadership and well-being, addressing the two following questions: (a) what do we know about the relationship(s) between servant lead- ership and well-being and (b) what theoretical mechanisms are used by researchers to explain these relationships? Based on a qualitative state of the K. Bentein (*) School of Business Administration (ESG), University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Montreal, QC, Canada e-mail: bentein.kathleen@uqam.ca A. Panaccio John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 P. Brough et al. (eds.), Handbook on Management and Employment Practices, Handbook Series in Occupational Health Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24936-6_43-1 1