Biblical Leadership Analysis: BUSI 444 Course Essay Assignment

This essay, prepared for the BUSI 444 course, explores the concept of leadership through a biblical perspective, fulfilling the assignment brief's requirement to integrate biblical verses with course topics. The essay begins with a verse from Matthew and defines leadership, encompassing the ability to guide organizations and individuals. It contrasts Eastern and Western leadership approaches and highlights essential traits such as ethics, clear vision, and communication skills. The essay emphasizes the concept of 'servant leadership' inspired by Jesus' teachings, focusing on integrity, humility, flexibility, resilience, and stewardship as key qualities. It references the Noe textbook and uses APA formatting with a title page, references, and in-text citations to provide a well-structured analysis of leadership principles, ultimately aiming to provide a practical and ethical framework for leadership in the modern world.

Running Head : LEADERSHIP
Leadership
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Verse- “You know that the rulers in this world lord it over their people, and officials flaunt their
authority over those under them. But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a
leader among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must become
your slave. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life
as a ransom for many.” (Matthew 20:25-28 (NLT)
The leadership in any field encompasses the ability of an organization or an individual to
guide other people, organization and the teams. There are specialists who are debating on
different perspectives having contrasted the Eastern and the Western leadership approaches. The
leadership studies have involved the situational interaction, the traits, the power, behaviour,
charisma, values and the intelligence among other people. A good leader always takes the lead
having the personality, the clear vision, the courage with strong ambition to succeed. A perfect
leader helps people to encourage the team towards performing better with all of their time and
drive the success of the organization. There are some of the most important traits of leadership
such as ethics, the appropriate skills, experience, the adaptive and the transformational styles, a
clear direction, powerful communication skill, respect for regulations.
The Bible is a powerful example of a scripture that holds the core theories of leadership.
It can be said that leadership is nothing new and since the creation of the world, the leaders have
paved the way to an ideal leadership. The idea of ‘servant leadership’ has been generated being
inspired through the verses of Jesus in Matthew 20:25-28 (NLT). Jesus preaches it when a person
wants to be a leader among common the common people should be the servant.

2LEADERSHIP
This verse shows that leadership is more about making the name of God with the ability
to respect and love people. It can be applied to the modern science of business that everyone is
leading someone and at some point, one is a servant. There are some specific qualities of the
servant leader and integrity is the most important. It is the base of which all the qualities of
leadership are built. A servant leader never cheats on anyone, does not lie and manipulate others
in unethical way. Humility is another quality and as per the Biblical references, a servant leader
is the one who has developed in the space in order to grow from the opinions and the experiences
of other people. The next quality is the Flexibility and as per this, a servant leader should be
willing and active in terms of adapting to the surroundings and the situations. The modern
leaders can further learn Resilience from Jesus, that is another special feature of an ideal servant
leader. Resilience teaches the leaders to have the ability to fight back, press on and push through
the truth that the God has enabled people to preserve since he is the ultimate powerhouse of
strength. The significant quality of Stewardship enables the servant leaders in being the
appropriate stewards of the finances. However, stewardship is not always related to the money.
A servant leader ought to see people as valuable for the God. This type of leaders explain what is
true and good regarding the people they lead having provided them the instruction along with the
encouragement regarding how they should serve God. A servant leader actually makes use of
time for the glory of God, not for own-self.

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Bibliography
Antonakis, J., & Day, D. V. (Eds.). (2017). The nature of leadership. Sage publications.
Hagner, D. A. (2018). Matthew 14-28, Volume 33B. Zondervan Academic.
Noe, R. A., & Peacock, M. (2008). Employee training and development.