Brohi, N. A., Jantan, A, H., Qureshi, M. A., Jaffar, A. R. B., Ali, J. B., & Hamid, K. B. A. (2018). The impact of servant leadership on employees’ attitudinal and behavioral outcomes. Cogent Business & Management, 5(1), 1-17. Web.
This article is a research paper that aims to analyze how the style of leadership impacts the productivity of employees and hence their outcomes. It uses a quantitative method to analyze data that illustrates how servant leadership style is associated with employee turnover intention and psychological indulgence in working. The paper focuses on the effects of servant leadership on employees’ behavior and their attitudes towards work. It uses the example of a principal and teacher analogy to explain how servant leadership is based on the psychological safety evoked from promotion and prevention focus. It illustrates how feeling safe psychologically in the workplace can be promoted through servant leadership, where a leader tends to the needs of the subordinates to make them feel safer. The model illustrates how psychological safety leads to less turnover hence effective management by retaining all competent workers.
This is relevant as it shows how servant leadership used in management can affect the productivity of workers. It is also important as it illustrates the models considered in the direction and how the leader tends to use these models to navigate management. This paper demonstrates how leaders affect employees’ attitudes towards management and how collaborative the leadership style will make them towards new policies.
Eva, N., Robin, M., Sen Sendjaya, van Dierendonck, D., & Liden, R. C. (2018). Servant leadership: A systematic review and call for future research. The Leadership Quarterly, 30(1), 111-132. Web.
This journal focuses on what makes up a servant leader and what research shows and tells us about this leadership style. The journal also discusses the advantages and disadvantages servant leadership style holds over other techniques. It looks into how to measure the aptitude of servant leadership using sixteen different variables and how these variables affect outcomes. This is done as there had been less phenomenological research on how servant leadership affects various organizations. The paper is extensive as it examines all existing aspects and modes of servant leadership. This research is in-depth, and by analyzing the characteristics of leadership needed for effectiveness and increased productivity, the paper highlights the strong suits of servant leadership.
The journal’s relevance is seen in how it carefully looks into the type of leadership style and compares it with the others. This is used to assert a level understanding of the leadership style to apply it to a managerial perspective. The journal also looks into the strengths and weaknesses of the leadership style, thus allowing insight into what traits can be involved in the management and how their effectiveness can be reinforced.
Siriattakul, P., & Jermsittiparsert, K. (2019). Impact of transformational and servant leadership on organizational performance and job satisfaction: An empirical assessment of pharmaceutical firms in Thailand. International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change, 6(11), 73-101.
This paper juxtaposes transformational and servant leadership in terms of job satisfaction and organizational performance using a clearly defined methodology. The aim is to establish which leadership method produces the best outcomes for consumer eccentricity. It looks at which paper effectively motivates the employees to have good results for the consumers.
This paper is essential as it highlights the features of servant leadership style juxtaposed to those of transformational leadership style, showing its strengths. This paper is also relevant as it exposes how servant leadership style affects job satisfaction and organizational performance and how this, in turn, can affect client satisfaction, which brings back the spotlight on administrative management.
Coetzer, M., Bussin, M., & Geldenhuys, M. (2017). The functions of a servant leader. Administrative Sciences, 7(1), 5. Web.
This research paper looks into servant leadership and its effectiveness as a management style in a highly competitive market. It looks into servant leadership, operational and strategic servant leadership, and how these different functions aid an organization. It does so by looking at the qualities of the leadership style and looking at how these features are helpful in a work environment. This was done by analyzing the effectiveness of a servant leadership style with job satisfaction, a competitive environment, and a diversified workforce. The aim was to see how organizations can use these functions to cultivate an effective method of leadership for efficient management.
The paper was relevant as it showed the lengths to that the servant leadership style could expand and its limitation over the other styles due to certain disadvantages in the competitive market. This is important as it answers whether this form of leadership may be enough for effective management or if there may be a need to supplement with other forms of leadership. It allows the understanding of how to cultivate a good form of leadership and the importance of an effective leadership style in management.
Ragnarsson, S., Kristjánsdóttir, E. S., & Gunnarsdóttir, S. (2018). To be accountable while showing care: The lived experience of people in a servant leadership organization. SAGE Open, 8(3), 1-12. Web.
The paper was qualitative research done to understand how people felt about the use of a servant leadership style. This was done by conducting interviews with both managers and employees to see what they thought of it and whether it was as effective in management as it was said to be. It also looked into what dimension of this leadership style was practiced more.
This paper was relevant in the research of servant leadership in management as it illustrated the two sides that needed to be examined to come up with a clear view of how the leadership style worked. The paper was also important as it focused on the fact that in as much as this leadership style aims to serve to build a rapport, the majority of the work is done leading rather than serving the employees as a manager.
Donia, M. B. L., Raja, U., Panaccio, A., & Wang, Z. (2016). Servant leadership and employee outcomes: The moderating role of subordinates’ motives. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 25(5), 722–734. Web.
This journal seems to compare servant leadership style to the others through the lens of serving subordinates. It looks at how servant leadership may aim to boost job satisfaction through subordinate leader relationships. It looks at how serving the subordinates as a leader promotes the effectiveness of their work and serves as a motivation for better outcomes. The paper looks into how the interactions between the leaders and subordinates affect the organization’s effectiveness as a whole. The paper specifically focuses on subordinate organizational leadership behaviors and how this is impacted by servant leadership
This paper is relevant as it looks into the servant leadership style and how it affects the organization through management subordinate relationships. It is crucial in management as it illustrates how the management of staff through a servant leadership style may, in turn, affect the productivity and outcomes of the entire organization as well as the motivation of the team. It also looks at how a change in the model of servant leadership may affect job satisfaction
Tanno, J. P, & Banner, D. K. (2018). Servant leaders as change agents. Journal of Social Change, 10(1), 1–18. Web.
This journal highlights the skills of an effective leader using the virtue of a leader that uses the servant leadership style. It uses these virtues to illustrate effectiveness in an organizational setting to effect social change in many ways. The journal also highlights how the servant leadership style affects the attitudes and behaviors of workers and how an organization as a whole may benefit from the servant leadership style. This way, it analyses how social change is indirectly linked to servant leadership by manipulating the attitudes and behaviors of the individuals within the organization of change.
This journal is relevant as it shows how the different virtues of servant leadership aid management in an organization. Its qualitative methodology allows one to see how this leadership style affects productivity and outcomes in the workplace. The journal is also relevant as it shows how management can be seen as more of a team effort through servant leadership than sheer individual effort.
References
Brohi, N. A., Jantan, A, H., Qureshi, M. A., Jaffar, A. R. B., Ali, J. B., & Hamid, K. B. A. (2018). The impact of servant leadership on employees attitudinal and behavioral outcomes. Cogent Business & Management, 5(1), 1-17. Web.
Coetzer, M., Bussin, M., & Geldenhuys, M. (2017). The functions of a servant leader. Administrative Sciences, 7(1), 5. Web.
Donia, M. B. L., Raja, U., Panaccio, A., & Wang, Z. (2016). Servant leadership and employee outcomes: The moderating role of subordinates’ motives. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 25(5), 722–734. Web.
Eva, N., Robin, M., Sen Sendjaya, van Dierendonck, D., & Liden, R. C. (2018). Servant leadership: A systematic review and call for future research. The Leadership Quarterly, 30(1), 111-132. Web.
Ragnarsson, S., Kristjánsdóttir, E. S., & Gunnarsdóttir, S. (2018). To be accountable while showing care: The lived experience of people in a servant leadership organization. SAGE Open, 8(3), 1-12. Web.
Siriattakul, P., & Jermsittiparsert, K. (2019). Impact of transformational and servant leadership on organizational performance and job satisfaction: An empirical assessment of pharmaceutical firms in Thailand. International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change, 6(11), 73-101.
Tanno, J. P, & Banner, D. K. (2018). Servant leaders as change agents. Journal of Social Change, 10(1), 1–18. Web.