SERVANT LEADERSHIP

Servant Leadership



Servant Leadership

Introduction

The paper attempts to discuss the concept of servant leadership in a holistic context. It highlights various aspects of servant leadership and answers various questions that are strongly linked with the idea of servant leadership. The paper discusses about the link between power and politics in an organizational perspective. It also explains servant leadership and its features including listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, commitment to the growth of people, building community and need of improvement. The paper then presents an overview of the influence of servant leadership on organizational performance. It also highlights the concept of spirituality in workplace. The paper then discusses the theory of Greenleaf regarding servant leadership before it moves no to explaining the concept of foresight in accordance with effective leadership. It also mentions servant leadership in a global perspective.

Discussion

Power and Politics

The power seen from the organizational behavior can be defined as the influence of one person to another that leads to a relationship of dependency, which is measured according to the dependency of a person to another and the importance given to their power (Russell & Stone, 2008). The power is closely related to leadership, since according to exert power within the group leader will depend on achieving the goals set by the organization (Radtke, 2007).

People react to organizational policy factors according to whether individual or organizational; there is also evidence that strong perception of politics bears a negative relationship with job satisfaction (Hubbard, 2009). This perception also increases anxiety and tension. To make matters worse this policy ends when the employee's performance wanes, having a devastating effect on individuals and reducing levels of performance. The policy and performance relationship is moderated by the realization that the individual has the how's and why's of organizational politics (Sendjaya & Sarros, 2006). This is linked to that, when there is a lot of politics and a lot of understanding, the performance increases because the individual sees the activities policies and opportunities, but when there is little understanding, people think that politics is a threat, which has a negative effect on their performance (Radtke, 2007).

Servant Leadership

Servant Leadership model is a set of conclusions, reflecting objectively existing relations and connections between the phenomena of objective reality. Thus, the theory is an intelligent reflection of reality. In theory, every conclusion is derived from other inferences based on certain rules of logical inference (Russell & Stone, 2008). The ability to predict the consequence of theoretical constructs. Theories are formulated, developed and tested in accordance with the scientific method. It is a set of generalized positions, forming a science or a partition. The theory serves as a form of synthetic knowledge, within which individual concepts, hypotheses and laws lose their former autonomy and become elements of an integrated system (Henderikus, 2010).

Spears perhaps best summarized the main tenets of servant leadership into 10 core characteristics from studying Greenleaf's original writings (although this list is not exhaustive, by any ...