Comparison and Contrast of Servant Leadership and Authentic Leadership

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Comparison and Contrast to the Concepts of Servant Leadership and Authentic Leadership
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Servant leadership alongside authentic leadership
Definition
Servant leadership is defined to be a type of management that considers worker to the
upper most factors in operation. It starts with the usual sensation that an individual need to
operate or to work first. The deliberate choice is the major factor that brings an individual to
aspire to lead (Kantharia, 2012). Therefore, servant leadership remains to be the leadership
viewpoint in which the major aim of the director is to serve. It is unique to other types of
leadership where the primary target of leaders is the flourishing of their organization. A servant
manager distributes various powers but put the desires of the workers ahead and assist followers
develop and execute as exceedingly as possible (Muthia & Krishnan, 2015). Servant leadership
focuses on ideas of inverting the standards that sets the client service as the principal priority. On
the other side, authentic management refers to the style of management that emphasizes on the
process of building legitimacy of leadership through a sincere relationship with supporters that
appreciate their effort. Their operations are developed on the moral foundation. Therefore, an
authentic leader concentrates on the idea that aims at constructing the leader’s authority (Seco &
Lopes, 2013). In most cases, authentic managers are optimistic individuals with honest self-ideas
that encourage openness. By the creation of belief as well as creating passionate support from
their subordinates, however, reliable managers are capable of improving people and the
performance of the team.
Characteristics of servant headship and authentic leadership
Servant headship has the conscious effort that aims to serve first while authentic
management is rising in replying to societal needs for real, good, and responsible leadership.
Servant management builds firm relationships with other people or stakeholders of an
organization that are sympathetic, moral, and guide in conducts that hand out the superior good.
Servant leadership usually focus to attend fully to the needs of followers while authentic
leadership always focus to fully attend to the needs of society demands for trustworthy, genuine,
and good leadership (Reynolds, 2011). It is clear that servant leadership actively or proactively
focused on developing into leaders while authentic leaders actively focus on developing
followers into genuine leadership.

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Servant leadership comprises of many characteristics more than authentic leadership
approach. Some of the traits of servant headship consists of paying attention, awareness,
empathy, restoration, and influence (Kantharia, 2012). Other traits of servant leadership include a
commitment to the development of persons, conceptualization, stewardship, foresight, and
creating a strong society. Conversely, theoretical approach to leadership is drawn on fields of
leadership, ethics, positivity, and organizational scholarship (Kiersch & Peters, 2017). Some of
the characteristics of this form of leadership (authentic) comprise of relational transparency, self-
awareness, balanced processing, and alongside internalized moral reasoning. In authentic,
behavior is impacted by the positive psychological capacities of a leader, their moral reasoning,
as well as critical events of life.
Leader’s behaviors
Servant leadership competencies such as a combination of technical skills, understanding,
together with behaviors include empowerment, stewardship, creating firm relationships, and
compelling vision. On another hand, authentic leadership leaders are impacted and act upon
based on their abilities to create ethical decisions concerning issues of right or wrong and bad or
good. These leaders are only guided by moral reasoning. Davenport (2014) view servant
leadership to be the multi-dimensional process with varied traits that comprise of emotional
restoration, conceptualizing, and placing workers first, assisting admirers advance and do well,
performing morally, generating value for the society, along with empowering followers.
Peterson, Walumbwa, Avolio, & Hannah, (2014) states that in authentic leadership, leader’s
authentic ethics idea, and traits work to form the progress of their followers through the
application of confidence, optimism, hope, as well as resilience. Leader’s behaviors in authentic
leadership comprise of confidence that makes a leader to have self-efficacy (Zentner, 2015).
Hope in authentic leadership is another leadership behavior that focuses on positive state based
on willpower and appropriate planning optimism in this kind of leadership focus on viewing
situation with the positive lens and having favorable expectations concerning future results.
Moreover, resilience as leadership behavior in authentic leadership forms the capacity to recover
from and adjust to adverse situations.
Strength of servant leadership alongside authentic management