Servant Leadership Research Paper
Leadership Research Paper: Servant Leadership
Liberty University
Abstract
This research paper combines the studies of the this course weekly readings and information learned from the courses studies on servant leadership principles which help to empower employees, have a care and concern for employees well-being and an overall commitment buy leaders to make sure their team is effective and members grow. Through the biblical integration project and literature review this paper will discuss the characteristics of a servant leaders set based on the word of God and modeled and perfected through Jesus Christ. A servant leader must love and serve God, love others which helps the leader to serve them and fulfill …show more content…
A leader with a non-biblical servant leadership perspective in many cases worry about power, control, recognition and titles. According to Mueller (2011) “Servant Leadership is not about a personal quest for power, prestige, or material rewards. Instead, it begins with a true motivation to serve others.” Servant leaders following Christ do not worry about any of this stuff because they know that they will get eternal gain not the short term gain that people receive here on earth (Fischer, 2014). Organizations, have a shortage of the kind of leaders who can look beyond their interests to serve the needs of workers (Brumback, 1999). According to Boden, (2014) “Each of us serves a portion of humanity. Everyone with whom we have any kind of contact-is to us humanity.” Caring and leading have traditionally are not thought of together for leaders (Cunningham, 2004). This portion of the literature review on serving others confirms Blanchard and Hodges (2003) “effectiveness of a leader is dependent upon who they choose to follow.” Followers of Christ will put serving others first before serving …show more content…
(2014) in which we compared and contrasted the views of a man-centered view of servant leadership found by Robert Greenleaf with the Biblical worldview. There was a good mix of the humanistic view compared to the biblical view. For the humanistic view Spears 1996 & van Dierendonck, 2011 where used and scriptures such as Philippians 2:3 and Romans 12:2. The group not only used examples of Christ but servant leadership examples were provides using Apostle Paul and his writings to the Romans, where Paul stated, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will” (Romans 12:2). Once again this is where the servant leadership model championed by Greenleaf differs from the biblical model. Spears (2004) noted that the transformational change in the Greenleaf approach was only for the greater
Liberty University
Abstract
This research paper combines the studies of the this course weekly readings and information learned from the courses studies on servant leadership principles which help to empower employees, have a care and concern for employees well-being and an overall commitment buy leaders to make sure their team is effective and members grow. Through the biblical integration project and literature review this paper will discuss the characteristics of a servant leaders set based on the word of God and modeled and perfected through Jesus Christ. A servant leader must love and serve God, love others which helps the leader to serve them and fulfill …show more content…
A leader with a non-biblical servant leadership perspective in many cases worry about power, control, recognition and titles. According to Mueller (2011) “Servant Leadership is not about a personal quest for power, prestige, or material rewards. Instead, it begins with a true motivation to serve others.” Servant leaders following Christ do not worry about any of this stuff because they know that they will get eternal gain not the short term gain that people receive here on earth (Fischer, 2014). Organizations, have a shortage of the kind of leaders who can look beyond their interests to serve the needs of workers (Brumback, 1999). According to Boden, (2014) “Each of us serves a portion of humanity. Everyone with whom we have any kind of contact-is to us humanity.” Caring and leading have traditionally are not thought of together for leaders (Cunningham, 2004). This portion of the literature review on serving others confirms Blanchard and Hodges (2003) “effectiveness of a leader is dependent upon who they choose to follow.” Followers of Christ will put serving others first before serving …show more content…
(2014) in which we compared and contrasted the views of a man-centered view of servant leadership found by Robert Greenleaf with the Biblical worldview. There was a good mix of the humanistic view compared to the biblical view. For the humanistic view Spears 1996 & van Dierendonck, 2011 where used and scriptures such as Philippians 2:3 and Romans 12:2. The group not only used examples of Christ but servant leadership examples were provides using Apostle Paul and his writings to the Romans, where Paul stated, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will” (Romans 12:2). Once again this is where the servant leadership model championed by Greenleaf differs from the biblical model. Spears (2004) noted that the transformational change in the Greenleaf approach was only for the greater