The Effectiveness of Servant Leadership Behaviors in Chinese Organizational Context: A Longitudinal Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 1532
Author(s):  
Biying WANG ◽  
Riguang GAO
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Leadership Behaviors

Ethics and Leadership

2014 ◽  
pp. 182-200
Author(s):  
Nathan S. Hartman ◽  
Thomas A. Conklin
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Organizational Outcomes ◽  
Organization Culture ◽  
Employee Behaviors ◽  
Prevention Orientation ◽  
Leadership Approaches ◽  
Promotion Orientation

Leadership and ethics continue to be important areas of research. The devastating results of failed leadership in numerous Enron-like situations have ensured that this is the case. This chapter suggests how various leadership approaches and behaviors lead to or develop different types of employee behaviors that impact organizational outcomes. The framework reviews ethical, transformational, and servant leadership, and their relationship to self-regulatory focus. Specifically, promotion-oriented leaders tend to reflect transformational and servant-leadership behaviors and resulting organization cultures, while prevention-oriented leaders match the ethical leadership style and related organization culture. The prevention orientation is a conservative mindset guiding consistent leader and employee behavior, while the promotion orientation provides more opportunity for unique and innovative behaviors.

A Cross-Cultural Measure of Servant Leadership Behaviors

2013 ◽  
pp. 152-163
Author(s):  
Jeff R. Hale ◽  
Dail Fields
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Validity Evidence ◽  
Key Dimensions ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cultural Measure

This chapter presents items comprising three scales that measure servant leadership using three key dimensions: service, humility, and vision. The instrument was used to measure servant leadership behaviors experienced by followers in the United States and Ghana. Reliability and validity evidence is included from two research studies. A discussion of the relationship of servant leadership behaviors with employee outcomes assessed in these studies concludes the chapter.

From commanding to serving athletes: Nurturing the coach–athlete relationship

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 891-901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minjung Kim ◽  
Yukyoum Kim ◽  
Doyeon Won
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Individual Growth ◽  
Ethical Development ◽  
Men's Basketball ◽  
Leadership Research

As one of the emerging themes in research on sport management leadership, servant leadership focuses on facilitating individual growth and moral development. The present study tested a hypothesized research model that demonstrates support for the effects of a head coach's servant leadership on athletes' ethical development and team outcome confidence through the quality that characterizes the coach–athlete relationship. We recruited 347 student-athletes of football teams and men's basketball teams who play under the Division I system of the US National Collegiate Athletic Association. Whereas the quality of the coach–athlete relationship partially mediated the association between servant leadership and ethical development, it fully mediated the paths from servant leadership to team outcome confidence. This study provides empirical support for the positive influence of servant leadership behaviors and advances an improved understanding of the role played by the aforementioned relationship quality in coaching leadership research.

scholarly journals An Examination of Leader-Member Dyadic Politeness of Exchange and Servant Leadership on Group Member Performance

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Abu Bakar ◽  
Robert M. McCann
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Modeling ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Linear Modeling ◽  
Leadership Model ◽  
Constraint Theory ◽  
Dyadic Communication ◽  
Leadership Influence ◽  
Group Member

Integrating conversational constraint theory and models of homophily and relational dyadic communication, this study investigates how leader-member politeness exchange and servant leadership influence group member performance in a Malaysian organizational context. Using hierarchical linear modeling with data obtained from a sample of 510 employees, 65 workgroups, and 3 organizations, a politeness of exchange-servant leadership model was tested. Results show that servant leadership was positively and significantly associated with workgroup manager’s ratings of group member’s performance. The positive association between servant leadership and group member performance is more pronounced when managers and members in workgroups are high in politeness of exchange in their interactions. As predicted, leader-member dyadic politeness of exchange within the workgroup manager-group member dyads moderated this positive association.

scholarly journals Examining the school administrators’ servant leadership behaviors according to teachers perceptionÖğretmen görüşlerine göre okul yöneticilerinin hizmetkâr liderlik davranışlarının incelenmesi

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 5515 ◽  
Author(s):  
İbrahim Gül ◽  
Fatma Türkmen
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Teacher Opinions ◽  
Primary And Secondary School

The concept of servant leadership, which was initiated by Greenleaf, has been developed by other people and reached to today. The concept of servant leadership, which emphasizes the mentality of service, seems to be applicable in educational organizations. In this study, it was examined whether the school administrators had the servant leadership behaviors and the teacher opinions had significant differences in terms of some variables according to the opinions of the teachers. The population of the study consists from primary and secondary school teachers in Sinop province center. There are 426 teachers in the research universe. Of these, 302 teachers participated in the survey by random sampling. In this research, likert type instrument which was developed by Van Dierendonck and Nuijten (2011) and consisted of 26 sub-items and 7 dimensions, which was translated and adapted by Duyan (2012), was used. According to research findings; Teachers view supervisor's servant leadership behaviors partially adequate in some dimensions (accountability and responsible management), while the majority of sub-dimensions (empowerment, restraint, forgiveness, courage and humility) were viewed as insufficient.  According to the results of the research, teachers view school administrators as a responsible and accountable manager rather than a servant leader. These results alsoare compatible with some previous research results conducted in Turkey. Based on the results of the research, Based on the results of the study, It is recommended that the school administrators organize educational activities in order to gain servant leadership behaviors. ÖzetGreenleaf tarafından ortaya atılan hizmetkâr liderlik kavramı, başka kişiler tarafından da geliştirilerek günümüze kadar ulaşmıştır. Hizmet etme anlayışını öne çıkaran hizmetkâr liderlik kavramı, eğitim örgütleri içinde uygun düşmektedir. Bu çalışmada öğretmen görüşlerine göre, okul yöneticilerinin hangi düzeyde hizmetkâr liderlik davranışlarına sahip olduğu ve öğretmen görüşlerinin bazı değişkenler açısından farklılık gösterip göstermediği incelenmiştir. Çalışmanın evreni, Sinop il merkezinde görev yapan öğretmenlerdir. Araştırma evreninde 426 öğretmen bulunmaktadır. Bunlardan tesadüfi örnekleme yoluyla seçilen 302 öğretmen araştırmaya katılmışlardır. Araştırmada, Van Dierendonck ve Nuijten (2011)  tarafından geliştirilen ve Duyan (2012) tarafından Türkçeye uyarlanan, 26 madde ve 7 alt boyuttan oluşan likert türü ölçme aracı kullanılmıştır. Araştırma bulgularına göre, öğretmenler yöneticilerinin hizmetkâr liderlik davranışlarını “güçlendirme, geri durma, affetme, cesaretlendirme ve tevazu” alt boyutlarda yeterli düzeyde görmezken;  “hesap verebilirlik ve sorumlu yöneticilik” alt boyutlarında kısmen yeterli görmüşlerdir. Araştırmanın sonuçlarına göre; öğretmenler, okul yöneticilerini hesap verebilirlik ve sorumlu yöneticilik boyutlarında yeterli görmüşlerdir. Diğer boyutlarda kısmen yeterli görmektedirler. Bu sonuçlar, Türkiye’de yapılmış bazı araştırma sonuçlarıyla da örtüşmektedir.  Araştırmanın sonuçlarına dayalı olarak, okul yöneticilerinin hizmetkâr liderlik davranışlarını kazanmaları yönünde eğitim etkinlikleri düzenlemesi önerilmektedir.

scholarly journals Correlation of Essential Servant Leadership Behaviors, Perceived Organizational Support, and Employee Well-Being

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Winston
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Perceived Organizational Support ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Moderate Positive Correlation

This current research follows up on Greenleaf’s oft-quoted best test of servant leadership that calls for employees to be better off financially, emotionally, physically, psychologically, etc. because of the time spent with the servant leader. While oft-quoted, little empirical work exists to see if this is true. In this study, 170 participants provided their perception of their supervisors’ level of servant leadership, their perception of the organization’s support, and their self-report of their general well-being. Gender and age bracket information described the participants, and there were no significant differences between gender or age brackets for participants’ perception of their supervisors’ servant leadership. The analysis showed that there was a moderate positive correlation between servant leadership, perceived organizational support, and general well-being. A modification of an existing general well-being instrument provided a new eight-item general well-being scale with a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.956.

scholarly journals The Effects of Secondary School Administrators' Servant Leadership Behaviors on Teachers' Organizational Commitment

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Fatma Türkmen ◽  
İbrahim Gül
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Secondary School Administrators ◽  
High Level

The purpose of this research is to examine the effects of secondary school administrators’ servant leadership behavior on teachers' organizational commitment. This research was designed based on the relational screening model. The population of the study consists of 753 secondary school teachers. 438 teachers from the total population participated in the study. In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics such as percent, frequency, arithmetic mean, standard deviation and other statistical techniques such as ANOVA, t-test, and regression analysis were used. According to the research findings, school administrators have some modest and responsible managerial, empowerment and forgiveness behaviors. Teachers' level of adaptation of organizational commitment is moderate and is found to be at a high level in the sub-dimension of identification and internalization. Teachers' views on organizational commitment do not differ according to gender, marital status or seniority. Teachers' views of school administrators on servant leadership behaviors do not differ according to their marital status but differ according to their gender and seniority.

Personality traits and personal values of servant leaders

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
Peter Sun ◽  
Sudong Shang
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Servant Leaders ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Direct Reports

Purpose Servant leaders focus on their direct reports to enable them to grow to be independent and autonomous leaders. The purpose of this paper is to understand the way personal values and personality traits collectively influence this other-centered behavior. This will go a long way to unravel this unique style of leadership. Design/methodology/approach The study surveys managers and their direct reports. Leaders rated their personality trait and personal values, while their direct reports rated the leader’s servant leadership behaviors. Age, educational level, conscientiousness, extraversion and neuroticism of leaders were used as controls. The study also checked for endogeneity threats. Findings Using a sample of 81 leaders and 279 of their direct reports, the study finds that the personal value of benevolent dependability relates negatively to servant leadership behaviors. In addition, the personality traits of agreeableness and openness/intellect moderate the relationship between benevolent dependability and servant leadership behaviors. Research limitations/implications The findings shed important insights into what motivates servant leaders to engage in other-directed behaviors, thereby enabling future research into individual characteristics that define servant leaders. Originality/value Although studies have examined how values and personality traits influence leadership behaviors, no research has examined both types of individual differences in a single study. Studies examining the individual differences of servant leaders are few, and this study answers the call by Liden et al. (2014) to examine individual characteristics that are both personality based (traits) and malleable (values).

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