Stewardship and Governance: A Model by Peter Block

Running Head: STEWARDSHIP AND GOVERNANCE
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Model of Stewardship
presented by Peter Block
(1993)
Student’ s Details
9/12/2019

STEWARDSHIP AND GOVERNANCE 1
Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Stewardship by Peter Block.............................................................................................................2
Potential Benefits and Challenges...................................................................................................3
Key Elements of Stewardship..........................................................................................................4
Apply the Model of Stewardship in Organization...........................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
Reference List..................................................................................................................................6

STEWARDSHIP AND GOVERNANCE 2
Introduction
Stewardship is a term which refers to an ethic that represents the responsibility to manage
and plan every resource. The stewardship concept can be applied on the organization, nature,
environment, economics, property, health, theology and information. In the context of
organization, steward is a leader or executive which has many responsibilities to manage the
resources that are useful to achieve the objective of owner (Block, 1996). The stewardship
involves the employees and staff of the organization who helps to sustain, manage or develop the
function on the behalf of owner. In these days, stewardship is recognized as the acceptance of
responsibilities to safeguard and shepherd the valuables of others. The following essay will
describe the model of stewardship presented by the Peter Block. It will also discuss the benefits
and challenges of the model and how the model can apply on the organization.
Stewardship by Peter Block
The job of steward leader is very easy because he has right to share the beliefs of
stewardship such as the importance of identifying the authorities and rights of stakeholders, how
to manage resources as steward, the accountability and responsibility of employees, and the
independency which comes from the motivation level of manager. There are many practical and
realistic approaches which help the steward to make mindset to assist the employees of
organization to take responsibility and accountability (Ellis & G. , 2012). Stewardship starts
with the set the mindset of steward and embracing the role. Most important duty of a steward is
share the opinion and perspective with other employees and staff. With the higher level of
responsibility, steward can take the advantage numerous opportunities through influence the staff
members and explain the associations of own stewardship. But this is a responsibility and duty of
steward is that if he view own as steward then he must treat other employees as stewards. Create
and develop opportunities about the specific and important aspects or factors of stewardship to
discuss with the staff that employees never have supposed about before (Hwee & Cossin, New
Jersey).
The author Peter Block defined stewardship as the select supervise over the orderly
sharing the power in the organization. This means give the boundaries and bottom to the people