Management and Servant Leadership

Servant Leadership’s Developmental Effect on Corporate Organization

Qiu Liping

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Abstract

Nowadays, more and more companies use servant leadership as management method. Thus, there is an increase in attention to studies related to servant leadership. This paper is focus on servant leadership’s developmental effect on corporate organization. In order to answer the research question, surveys conducted by scholar such as Hebert, Drury and Irving are cited. According to the survey, there was a positive relationship between servant leadership. Furthermore, there was also a positive relationship between servant leadership and effectiveness in the team. Thus, servant leadership proves to have developmental effect on corporate organization.
1. Introduction

Since both organization and people in the organization are facing a changing world, it is important to seek a suitable type of leadership to manage people in the organization. Tracing back to the past, leadership changed together with development of human civilization from modern leadership to postmodern leadership. A leader is now given a brand new concept. In modern leadership, leaders used to act like a “big brother” ordering people, but in postmodern leadership, leaders act as servants serving people. This research paper is focus on the servant leadership. The research question is what is servant leadership’s developmental effect on corporate organization.

According to Hebert(2003), people working under servant leadership were satisfied with their job. Thus, there was a positive relationship between servant leadership and job satisfaction. Drury (2004) thought there was also a positive relationship between them . Furthermore, Irving ( 2005) made a conclusion that servant leadership helped to promote effectiveness in the teams.

Herbert (2003) and Drury (2004) discussed similar questions and reached the similar conclusion, but in a slightly different way.