Servant Leadership Management Style: An Organizational Analysis

This essay provides a comprehensive analysis of the servant leadership management style within organizations. It begins by defining servant leadership and highlighting its core principles, emphasizing the leader's role in serving others and fostering employee development. The discussion explores the pros and cons of this approach, including its impact on employee productivity, cooperation, and trust. The analysis delves into the factors that contribute to servant leadership's effectiveness, such as self-confidence, humility, and authenticity. However, it also acknowledges potential drawbacks, such as the time-consuming nature of implementation, the challenge of adapting to existing organizational structures, and the potential for employee demotivation if not managed correctly. The essay concludes with recommendations for organizations considering adopting a servant leadership style, emphasizing the importance of adapting leadership approaches to specific situations and ensuring clear organizational goals. References and figures are included to support the analysis and findings.

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Servant Leadership Management Style

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Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Discussion...................................................................................................................................................3
Analysis.......................................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion and Recommendation...............................................................................................................7

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Topic: A servant leadership management style is the best approach for managing people in
organisations.
Introduction
An organization can grow significantly with the help of an effective leadership style because
leadership is about influencing and enabling people to contribute towards achieving the common
goal of the organization. The main aim of this essay is to highlight the importance of one of the
leadership style that is servant leadership management’s style. The discussion will be made on
the pros and cons of servant leadership management as an effective approach to manage people
in the organization. In the context of the leadership, it has been analyzed that this phrase is
started with the natural feeling that one desires to serve, to serve first. The leader who is
following the servant leadership style is the one who brings one to aspire to lead. Servant
leadership refers completeness in itself. Servant leadership is considered as an approach or
practices that place the requirements of those being led the self-interest of the leaders. The
visions and mission of the company are made from the top hierarchy and each employee need to
perform within the organization to follow the same. It has been found that the major leadership
skills of servant leaders entail the capability to open lines of communication to all employees
that use persuasion rather than an effective authority (Rachmawati and Lantu, 2014).
Discussion
Servant leaders have a natural wish to serve others which is a deep commitment to the
development of others for the aim alone. The main role of the servant leadership is to maintain
the relationship with others in an effective manner. This kind of readership helps the
organization to increase the productivity of the employees in an efficient manner through which

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one can perform within the business effectively. The notion of the leaders of a servant has
considerable currency and it has been embedded in the principles of major religions. It has been
found that the companies have an upper level of performance when their executive applies the
servant leadership style.
Figure 1: Uniqueness of Servant leadership style
Source: (Rachmawati and Lantu, 2014).
It has been suggested by Green, Rodriguez, Wheeler and Baggerly-Hinojosa, (2016), that there
are some factors which suitable in the servant leadership style that is self-confident among
followers that gives them a sense of personal power. Another aspect is the humility that provides
the ability to the pot one on its own development and talents in an effective perspective.
Authenticity is another aspect of the servant leadership management style that demonstrates the
ways of inner feelings and thoughts (Grisaffe, VanMeter and Chonko, 2016). There is another
aspect of interpersonal acceptance that shows the ability to get understanding as well as
experience the feeling of others. Servant leadership has the ability to direct followers on the right
path in order to make work dynamics and tailor-made (Washington, Sutton and Sauser Jr, 2014).
Stewardship is another ability of the servant leadership that pushes them to show a willingness to

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take more responsibilities for the huge institutions and to go for services despite control as well
as self-interest.
Analysis
In the favor of the statement, A servant leadership management style is the best approach for
managing people in organisations, it has been found that the servant leadership style is an
effective approach to reach up to a maximum number of employees within the business. it is the
strategy that operates in a highly collaborative and interdependent manner (Ford and Harding,
2018). This kind of personality helps other and gives credits to them which keeps a positive
image of them in the view of the employees and they get motivated towards performing the task
in an efficient manner. It is the best approach to manage people in the organization because it
facilitates in making cooperation. It is the style that develops the trusts across constituencies and
focuses on the ability of the employees. the servant leadership style is comprised charismatic and
transformational leadership style, authentic and spiritual leader. Servant leadership and
transformational leadership style are considered as the people-oriented approaches which put a
significant value to the individualization and appreciation of followers. The main motive of the
transformational leaders is to take care of the followers because it would help them to increase
the productivity of them. van Dierendonck and Patterson, (2015) States that diversity entails in
the organization where a number of employees working for the different purpose and it is vital
for the leaders of the organization to take care of them so that the communication gap and any
other issue related to the diversity could not be developed. There is a number of benefits of
servant leadership in which disciplinarian atmosphere is one of them. They do not develop the
policies to be imposed on others and follow the policies through listening. Cooper (2010),
defined that the role of the servant leadership can be considered as the facilitator by a

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collaborative approach. In such way, each employee understands their responsibility to perform
in a well-efficient manner. Empowerment is referred as the enabler that handles and servant
leaders have the capability to handle the task in an efficient manner by taking consideration of
employees in it so that they can feel the same as the part of the organization. Positive networking
is developed by the servant leadership that entails the communication, coordination, and
collaboration that develop the huge potential for affirmative growth of individuals.
Every coin has two aspects which demonstrate the positive as well as negative part of the whole
scenario. Same applies to this topic statement. There is a number of issues linked with the topic
that impact the productivity of the employees adversely and influence the image of the servant
leadership. The major concern from the servant leadership management is the excessive amount
of work which is needed for developing the lesson and the lack of development actually. Parris
and Peachey, (2013), identified that the servant leadership is not successful to manage people in
the organization because it has not potential to manage people according to the policies and
norms because they do not have right to handle policies directly from the operations. Along with
that it is time-consuming approach because it would be hard to manage a large number of
employees’ individual, and the perception of each employee is different from other (Adamson,
2012). It has been analyzed that the idea of the servant leaders shows hard to develop in the
established community. It would be hard for the community to replace with already existing
policies. It is required for the organization to demolish the previous style of leadership from the
system to set up the completely new one policy. There is another factor of the servant leadership
style that can be the major reason of hurt to others which no involvement of employees in the
decision making an approach. However, the use of democratic style is not used under the process
due to the existence of the servant leadership style but it would impact the employee’s dignity as

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they start to think that they are not valuable for the company (Liden, Wayne, Liao and Meuser,
2014).
There are other cons of servant leadership style within the business that is timescale for the
business. The role of the servant leadership needs a change in the mentality and attitudes for the
purpose of doing task in an effective manner. Dierendonck, (2011), argued that it is not that type
of project which can be provided an initiated date but rather must initiate from a change in mind-
set. It would be hard for the large organization to carry this for a long time along with that it
would be hard for people to being led in a more authoritarian manner to become accustomed to
the accountability delegate to them with this style of leadership. This style of leadership might
show to be a long project as a consequence of difficult to get everyone on board with the idea. It
has been stated by Laub, (2018), that the servant leadership would need huge kind of whole
institution approach rather than people linking in it on their own.
Conclusion and Recommendation
It can be concluded from above discussion that the role of the servant leadership in the
organization keeps huge importance. It has been found that the role of the servant leadership
develops the growth of people, the practice of authenticity and community development. It is
recommended to the organizations to make an improvement within the process by adapting the
approach of servant leadership because it would be helpful for the organization to make
coordination between employees. It is implied to the leaders of the organization to adapt
leadership style as per the situation because one leadership style can be suitable with other
situation which can resolve the issues. The goals of the leadership should be cleared within the
business because it has been found that the servant leadership style can have the influence of
developing a parent-child relationship which can lead the employee in the path of demotivation.

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