Servant Leadership and Its Impact

This assignment examines the concept of servant leadership, highlighting its core principles and benefits. It delves into how this style fosters a positive work environment, enhances productivity, promotes ethical conduct, and contributes to organizational growth. The author draws upon scholarly sources and personal experience to illustrate the effectiveness of servant leadership in various contexts.

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Servant Leadership and its Impacts
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Servant Leadership and its Impacts
Servant leadership is a style in which one serves others rather than expecting to be
served, and he or she is dedicated to achieving a shared vision with those that are under him
or her. Among the existing leadership styles, servant leadership is recognized as the best as it
upholds and promotes the ideals of not only the leaders themselves but the society as a whole.
It is this style that allows social, economic and political structures and institutions to function
robustly and remain functional for a relatively long time compared to when other leadership
styles are implemented. Servant leadership promotes the ideal environment upon which the
rule of law can thrive as well as enhancing political stability hence ensuring a harmonious
coexistence of the leaders and the subjects.
Transformational servant leadership promotes a leader-follower psychology in the
leaders and their subjects and hence ensuring a greater gain for an organization (Van
Dierendonck & Patterson, 2010). The subordinates become more productive when they feel
that their leaders are working together with them rather than when he or she is just
commanding them and expecting some results in the end. With the use of this style in a
company, the employees tend to work with enthusiasm, inspiration and tend to encourage
even others to do the same and eventually, their productivity surpasses that which was
expected initially. With the servant leadership, fulfilling the mandate of a company without
failure at any given time or situation is ensured with ease.
Since servant leaders are people whose primary purpose for leading is serving others
through investing their well-being with the aim of accomplishing a common good, their
position in the process of culture building is very crucial. In a society, when servant
leadership is in place a common good for all is achieved hence ensuring a corporate human
development. Servant leaders set an example which those that they lead are to follow and
hence the development of an active humanitarian culture within an organization or

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community. Servant leaders act ethically as they aim to pursue and achieve a common good
and they actively encourage others to behave similarly hence an eventual development of a
healthy culture.
In influencing departments and firms to implement servant leadership, the most
efficient method would be setting an example and demonstrating the effectiveness and the
benefits of the leadership style compared to the ones that they have in place. I have
personally implemented this leadership style when working as a team leader and it created a
strong cohesiveness among the various team members and the productivity in the project that
was at hand was desirable.
Servant leaders tend to be sensitive to the needs and the feelings of those that are
around them, and this makes the subordinates develop high levels of trust and dependence on
the leaders, and in turn, this guarantees their loyalty to the company (Hammer, 2012). Servant
leaders ensure smooth flow of processes within a company as the workers remain motivated
at all times. Employees are motivated to approach their leaders in case of issues and
problems at the workplace, and this ensures organizational safety and overall growth.

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References
Hammer, D. (2012). Servant leadership. [Place of publication not identified]: Pacific Creek
Books.
Van Dierendonck, D., & Patterson, K. (2010). Servant Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan.