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This study adopted a survey research strategy to examine the impact of servant leadership and its dimensions on team effectiveness and trust in teams. The servant leadership, a new model of leadership, in recent years has been an area of interest to researchers and administrative staff. Furthermore, institutions of higher education in the third millennium, need to maintain and increase the reliability and effectiveness of their leadership style according to Peterson study that include service, altruism, Agapao love, humility, trustworthiness, empowerment and perspective. In our research, a sample of 170 academics from Faculty members of Herat University were selected through stratified sampling and collected data by questionnaire was analyzed using partial least squares (PLS) and statistical software PLS. The results indicated that; employed structural equation model, provides a powerful theoretical model for predicting team effectiveness through servant leadership and trust in the team. Also, significant impact of servant leadership and trust in the team on team effectiveness was confirmed. On the other hand, the indirect impact of servant leadership on team effectiveness was confirmed through trust in the team that represents the Mediator role of interpersonal trust in the team members. In fact, the results indicate that the servant leadership and trust in the team are leverage strong in order to upgrade and improve the team effectiveness.
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