Servant Leadership and Religiosity: An Indicator of Employee Performance in the Education Sector (original) (raw)

Developing Leaders to Serve, Developing Servants to Lead

Academy of Management Proceedings

In this paper, we propose that balanced and integrated development across spiritual, cognitive, social, emotional, and moral domains can result in a servant leader orientation; and argue that organizations can actively create environments in which such integrated vertical development can facilitate a cycle of this leadership style.

Servant Leadership: Antecedent Factors, Impact, and Education Theories Used as Researcher's Perspective

International Journal of Higher Education

A comprehensive understanding of the antecedent factors, and the impact of servant leadership and also about the education theories used as a perspective are so essential for leaders and researchers. However, there is not enough information about it. This paper was made to fill this gap by using the literature review approach. It was done to 71 Scopus indexed articles, which were published in the 2015 – 2020. There are several results of the review, those are: (1) servant leadership is influenced by the emotional intelligence, self-efficacy, motivation to serve, non-calculative as one dimension of motivation-to-lead, and mindfulness; (2) servant leadership have an impact on 38 dependent variables in individual level and 16 dependent variables in the organizational level both directly and indirectly; (3) there are 31 theories, which are used as a researcher's perspective, and two between them, which are mostly used are the social exchange theory and social learning theory. The re...

How spiritual leadership and organizational culture influence employee performance?

Journal of Multimedia, 2021

Spiritual leadership management is causal leadership for organizations designed to produce educational organizations that are intrinsically motivated. The aim of spiritual leadership is to produce a strategic and empowered vision and value appropriateness of team-level values and people and, in its words, greater responsiveness and organizational productivity. Organizational culture is a perception that is made jointly by members of the organization and must be obeyed by members of the organization or it is called a system created for togetherness. To achieve economic independence, Darussalam Gontor University established a business unit, namely the UNIDA Business Unit (U3). The Darussalam Gontor University Business Unit is one of the business fields owned by the Darussalam Gontor University with employees of different backgrounds. This study aimed to analyze the influence of organizational culture and spiritual leadership on the performance of employees of the Darussalam Gontor Uni...

Developing Leaders to Serve and Servants to Lead

Human Resource Development Review, 2020

In this paper, we propose a model of how balanced and integrated development across spiritual, cognitive, social, emotional, and moral domains can result in a servant leader orientation for both those who are predisposed to serve but might not be leaders, and those who are leaders but might not be predisposed to serve. First, we review the benefits of servant leadership in today’s organizations and the commonly agreed upon dimensions of servant leadership. We then propose how balanced and integrated development can facilitate a transition to a servant-oriented style of leadership for both those that serve and those that lead. We discuss organizational barriers to servant leadership development, and how organizations can overcome these barriers by creating contexts in which such integrated vertical development can facilitate a cycle of servant leadership. Lastly, we make suggestions for how organizations’ human resource functions might develop servant leaders.

Servant leadership and organizational performance: Mediating role of organizational culture

Problems and Perspectives in Management

Servant leadership positively influences the performance of organizations since it focuses on developing the most critical capital of organizations – human beings. The study aims to analyze the influence of servant leadership on organizational performance mediated by organizational culture focusing on administrative staff in Peru. It uses a quantitative approach and non-experimental design. The data were obtained transversally from 465 union members-administrative staff through a virtual survey with a 20-item Likert-type questionnaire, verifying the data for compliance with the underlying assumptions. For data processing, the SPSS AMOS program was chosen, subjecting the data to confirmatory factor analysis and using the structural equation model to test the proposed hypotheses. The results show that, for administrative staff, organizational culture partially mediates the influence of servant leadership on organizational performance at 0.127. While servant leadership positively influ...

A Philosophy of Leadership and Leadership Development

2021

Servant leadership is a topic that is frequently talked about but rarely understood or practiced. Many Christians seem to equate servant leadership with passive or subservient leadership. They envision the servant leader as a gentle, accommodating person who works hard to meet peoples’ needs and keep everybody happy. True servant leaders, however, are not docile. They’re driven. Servant leaders proactively labor to equip and empower God’s people so that they can accomplish God’s purposes in the world together. This research paper will demonstrate the empowering and transformational nature of servant leadership by exploring a Biblical theology of leadership. The life and teachings of Jesus and the apostle Paul, as well as the character, goals, and overall heart attitude of the leader, will receive special emphasis. This paper will also set forth a Biblically informed model of leadership development that can be adapted to work within the context of a church or other Christian organization.

Leadership: A Theoretical and Empirical Discourse

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE, 2018

Diverse views have emerged on leadership definitions, theories, and classification in academic discourse. The debate and conscious efforts made to clarify leadership actively has generated socio-cultural and organizational research on its styles and behaviours. This study seeks to identify the theoretical views of various academic scholars on some of the main theories that emerged during the 20 th century include: the Thomas Carlyle's Great Man theory, Gordon Allport's Trait theory, Fred Fiedler's Contingency theory, Hersey and Blanchard Situational Theory, Max Weber's Transactional theory, MacGregor Burns' Transformational theory, Robert Houses' Path-goal theory, and Vroom and Yetton's Participative theory. Empirical discourse that revealed findings of academic scholars have enshrined the import of leadership in organizations. Various academic literature that already have been subject to validity and reliability tests were reviewed and used to arrive at the findings. The study postulated the Mystical-man theory after a rich discourse and recommended it as the ideal theory for all Christian leaders to adopt as it is assumed to provide above average performance at all times, irrespective of followership behaviour.