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2016
This article strives to discuss the role of servant leadership in higher education. In begins with an introduction to synopsis of servant leadership. I do this partially do through a discussion of my first encounter with it and my initial resistance. Second, the article examines discusses higher education as servant leadership and how, to my mind, a greater attention to that could play a major role in saving higher education, particularly liberal education, from its current malaise. Finally, it addresses how we can educate for servant leadership and how the process of such education, if done well, actually does return us to a realization of the fundamental purposes of higher education.
Servant Leadership in Higher Education
Good evening! Thank you for this opportunity to talk about servant leadership in higher education. I will say a few words, and then I look forward to your questions and comments.
Servant-Leadership in Higher Education: A Look Through Students’ Eyes
International Journal of Servant-Leadership
C ompeting in the global marketplace requires organizations to promote their leaders as servant-leaders by replacing the old rules of traditional leadership with the 'top of the leadership pyramid. By focusing on the growth and well-being of people and the communities to which they belong, servantleadership appears as a promising model to solve problems and promote personal development. Robert K. Greenleaf first introduced the term servantleadership in his book The Servant as Leader (1970). As noted by the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership (1970), servant-leaders start with the desire to serve first, and then they become inpired to lead. Accordingly, Greenleaf described servant-leadership as a practical philosophy that supports people who choose to serve first and lead second. Parris and Peachey (2013) explained that there is a significant distinction between someone who wants to be a leader first and someone who cares to serve first. The latter is a
Archives of Business Research
In this study, we examined students' perceptions of certain servant leader behaviors exhibited by faculty and the associated perception of effective university instruction. Five servant leadership dimensions were considered: altruistic calling, emotional healing, wisdom, persuasive mapping, and organizational stewardship. Students in the United States who were in undergraduate or graduate programs or had completed a program within the last month were invited to complete the survey instrument based on the Servant Leadership Questionnaire developed by Barbuto and Wheeler [1] and the University of Winnipeg's Quality of University Instruction Questionnaire (UW-QUIQ) developed by Clark [4]. We used a structural equation model and found there was a positive relationship with professors exhibiting servant leadership dimensions and quality of instruction. Business professors in this study exhibited lower servantleadership attributes in some areas and lower levels of effective university instruction than their counterparts, mandating the need for change. We suggest that these results provide insight into improving business school instruction.
Servant Leadership: Educational Institution
Journal of English and Education, 2016
Servant leadership was firstly introduced by Robert K. Greenleaf in his essay Theservant as leader in 1970. Greenleafhad spent his life working for a telecommunication company before he eventually dedicated his life as a public teacher. He concerned about wider society and global culture. His belief is that audientic change happened only when it began in the inner solitude of single individuals. Greenleaf explains that the servant leader is servant first with the natural feeling that one wants to serve. The leader-first and the servant-first are two extreme types of leaders with the servant-first leader taking care to make sure other people's highest priority needs are being served. Following the desire to serve may be a conscious choice that brings one to aspire to lead. In educational setting, servant leadership seems to be the niost compatible leadership compare to transformational and charismatic leadership. Teachers serve the need of student and in turn this will encourage students consciously to become leader for themselves to be more independent.
Developing Servant Leadership Skills in Higher Education Leaders: A Literature Review
IJARSCT, 2023
This systematic literature review aims to explore and synthesize existing research on the development of servant leadership skills among higher education leaders. As servant leadership gains recognition as a transformative leadership approach in educational settings, understanding effective strategies for cultivating servant leadership qualities becomes essential for fostering positive organizational culture and enhancing student outcomes. This article seeks to provide insights into various training programs, workshops, and initiatives that have been employed to promote servant leadership competencies, and their impact on leadership effectiveness, employee engagement, and overall institutional performance. The review also addresses the challenges and opportunities associated with implementing servant leadership development programs in the higher education context.
Servant-leadership as an effective model for teacher leadership
This brief article aims to explore current approaches to teacher leadership in an attempt to advance its practice and energize the collective leadership of teachers. Leadership is not vested in one person who is assigned to a formal position of power or authority, but, rather, is a reciprocal process that enables participants in an educational community to construct meanings for a shared purpose of schooling. First, I acknowledge the teacher’s role in leading improvement at both classroom and shool levels. I, then, suggest that applying servant leadership to teacher leadership may serve as an opportunity to improve teaching practices
TEM Journal, 2024
Leadership style is a critical concern in education amid technological shifts and paradigm changes. Despite extensive industry research, servant leadership remains underutilized in education, despite aligning with business education goals. This scoping review assesses the prevalence of servant leadership among educational leaders, offering insights into its feasibility, benefits, and challenges. Using the Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, and ERIC databases, the review compiles servant leadership research. Guided by Arksey and O'Malley's methodology, findings emphasize servant leadership's role in enhancing organizational effectiveness. They highlight behaviors as a prevailing theme, revealing limited background understanding. This insight aids educators in adopting effective leadership styles and exploring servant leadership's implications for educational leaders.
Servant Leadership: A New Model of Service at University?
2020
The purpose of this study is to relate servant leaders' attributes in university. As construction of leadership behavior that is multidimensional and unique compared to other leadership models, servant leadership emphasizes personal integrity in providing services to members of the organization and other stakeholders. Universities as higher education institutions are expected to adapt to the needs and demands of the environment by applying leadership style that gives more attention to the transformative progress of organization members. Given the complex environment and its social responsibility, leaders in the university must actively listen to its stakeholders to pursue organizational changes that fit with the need of wider publics while uploading high-quality academic outcomes and maintaining institutional values. This study focuses on the implementation of servant leadership at Tadulako University from seven dimensions of servant leadership through questionnaires distributed...
Global Regional Review
Among many leadership styles, servant leadership is among recent style that is getting a wide range of attention and acceptance among business researchers and academia. The aim of this paper was to investigate the effect of Servant leadership influence on teaching effectiveness. Data were collected through questionnaires from 480 students of two public sector universities KPK. Structured Equation Modeling (AMOS) was employed to test the hypotheses of the study. Three models were developed and tested. The results show that Servant Leadership had a positive but insignificant impact on teaching effectiveness; interesting findings are that individual dimensions of servant leadership had a strong positive and significant impact on teaching effectiveness. Thus, this paper provides in-depth analysis necessary for higher educational institutes and Business institutions, for practical and theoretical implications to adopt servant leadership at the workplace.