Organizational Leadership and Design: Servant vs. Authentic Leadership

This essay critically analyzes and compares servant leadership and authentic leadership styles, examining their distinct characteristics and approaches within organizational contexts. The essay delves into the influence and impact of each leadership style on follower job satisfaction and organizational commitment, providing a detailed analysis of how these leadership approaches shape employee attitudes and behaviors. Real-world examples of high-profile contemporary business leaders, such as Whitacre, Charyl Bachelder, Indra Nooyi, and Warren Buffett, are used to illustrate the practical application and effectiveness of these leadership styles. The essay explores how these leaders have implemented servant and authentic leadership principles to achieve organizational success and foster positive outcomes for their employees. The analysis covers the key differences between the two leadership styles, their respective strengths and weaknesses, and the ways in which they contribute to a thriving organizational culture. The essay concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the critical role of leadership in driving organizational growth and development.

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Authentic leadership and Servant leadership are two different types of approaches to be
followed in the leadership process in the particular and accurate management required for the
perfect change in the organization and industry to which it is related. Authentic leadership is
such a style of management in which the people or the workers act in their gentility face, realistic
and sincere way as they are actually in their individuality (Hoch, Bommer, Dulebohn & Wu,
2018). The leaders which follow such thing are to be tended to be the best in their
trustworthiness, loyalty towards the organization. The best example of an authentic leader is
Whitacre as one of the large companies GM was declared bankruptcy in the year 2009 however;
Whitacre had turned around the automobile company with much of it down to his authentic style.
He sought to build trust with consumers and employees in an effective manner van (Dierendonck
& Patterson, 2015)).
In Servant Leadership process what comes first is the servant which is of the organization
like which works as the organization in as a whole. The person from the actual workforce who
comes out as the best or the one with many of qualities like information about the organization,
the different types of manifestos proposed by the servant has to be seen by the last bin propriety.
The main part to be seen is that the persons grow in personnel (Focht & Ponton, 2015). For
example, Charyl Bachelder is a well-known servant leader; he is the former CEO of Popeyes
Louisiana Kitchen. Her servant heart goes far beyond her writing as well as was used to achieve
over dollar one billion in the sales of U.S and quadruples the stock during her time with the
company. She used a collaborative as well as attentive approach to serve the people who had
invested in their company. Through their leadership, they would able to enhance the experiences
of consumers and turn the trajectory of the company on their heels (Yasir & Mohamad, 2016).
The difference between authentic leadership and servant leadership is very much
different as being predicted or not. First, according to authentic Leadership an authentic leader
build its honest legitimacy with maintaining the honest relations with followers by valuing their
input on building ethical foundations for leading in front while servant leadership goes with
servant first policy with serving first to get served, the priorities of individual or employee is
foremost taken to sort the difficulties and serving (Ling, Liu& Wu, 2017). Second, authentic
Leadership emerge as the demand of bringing trust in society, increasing genuine about the

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management, and giving a good leadership; having qualities which can be named as follows like
having individual consciousness towards management, generating reasons for individual noting
for the moral as a unit one, equally thoughts has to be processed in one go so the balance can be
maintained, transparent relations should be motivated among the management and workflow;
behavior of workflow can be regularized with the leaderships influence in the vision of having
positive capabilities to control the physiological thoughts of the employee, help in the life
threating events of the staff while according to the Servant leadership serving in the first line is
the most important thing with maintain the best relations with staff with leading them in the most
ethical, empathetic and ethical ways to conduct operations; conversion of the actual followers
into the future leaders is the most important or the foremost task of the leadership; some
characteristics of servant is seen very keenly like leadership, a good listener, forgiveness, healing
the wounds, knowingly all things, persuasion, forward looking approach, visualization of future
(Welty Peachey & Burton, 2017).
Third, authentic Leadership has its leaders influenced their thoughts, actions, and visions
with the authentic leading tactics of what is wrong which is the right path which is the actual
right path to be followed and which will lead to the death of the visions in future with guidance
of moral values; the authentic norms, beliefs, and behaviors followed by the leaders act as stone
to be added in the path of development of followers with comprising of confidence, urge, trust
and cheer on the faces with confidence as a major thing; self-effectiveness; leaders are full of
hope for the building of state of positive’s with will power and individual faith; positive’s in the
future approach of the organization with better planning and willingness to do the work;
capability to get the team and organization recovered from the unfavorable conditions which
may occur in the future while servant leadership leader will comprise a combination of
technological expertise, skills and changes of the issue with empowering the ream with building
relations as with forcing the mission and visions on the team; leader may or shall also comprise
conceptual thinking process with emotional touch to help and let the followers grow in the main
stream first and foremost by creating the value of the organization or team in the community
(Green et al., 2016).
Fourth, authentic leadership gives an impact on the followers in many ways firstly by
giving positive impacts in sense of outcomes for the organization; the behavioral styles and way

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to tackle situations grow in a very sensible and smart way to the upper levels of impact on the
effectiveness of workforce on the course of business for running a successful organization; trust
building helps motivating followers to give the best out of them in the form of output of working
mode; wellbeing is checked in regular one to one basis as to bring the sense of belongingness
with great respect; the word for the organization with satisfaction on the working environment
with better to the best output is scored (Miao, Humphrey & Qian, 2018). While servant
leadership as the engagement of workforce increases with sense of being a member of the
organization as whole giving out innovative idea of behaving as a team, commitment towards the
industry which you serving for building trust and self-efficacy giving the best job satisfaction in
leader and member exchange; as a citizen the behavior has turned into a positive way, groups of
working class can be easily identified by the leaders with giving a privilege to the
underprivileged staff or workforce and providing a climate of justice to the staff in true senses;
job of taking care of the organization with persuasion and conception of the thoughts which give
a positive impact on the commitment towards organization with work satisfaction as a whole
with the role setting of each employee in the workforce which will turn out in improving towards
highest performance of the company as whole (Anderson & Sun, 2017).
As a follower for job satisfaction, different management strategies have a variable impact
on the various job strategies or the management policy adopted by the organization. The impact
of followers of servant leadership on job satisfaction is on the following ways. First, the
followers become a good listener in the process and get to know what they actually want in the
process of doing business and what they have to follow for. Second, empathetically strive with
the needs of the others and understand what they want in a particular situation (Yang, Zhang,
Kwan & Chen, 20180. Third, the quotient of healing or the antiseptic towards any situation on
negative thoughts can heal up the individuals and the groups as well. Fourth, the employees or
the people are being in the awareness of the situation in the organization with the individual
awareness in the system as well. Fifth, the decision making the authority of the organization is
depended on the servant leaders to rely on the persuading thought of the organization rather
going on the personal authorization. Sixth, the company or the staff will have the future
slightness the nature of their abilities to do more as an organization in the future. Seventh, the
needs of the people or the person are there to fulfill the needs of others in the future (Chiniara &
Bentein, 2016).

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Impact of Servant leadership on the follower of organizational commitment can be stated
as in the following ways first, the modeling of the actual plan has to be seen in the execution
which has been created in the pre-advance so that the results as expected are realized. Second,
the organizational people or the personals are being empowered by the commitments as follows.
Third, the continuity of job satisfaction is being approved and the staff is always treated to grow
in the business real sense. Fourth, organizational culture will be manipulated in the time process
or the professionalism regarding the working culture is maintained or the earned. The best
example of a servant leader is Indra Nooyi; she is the CEO of PepsiCo. They are well-known for
her empathetic approach as well as leading with the people in mind. Around 70 % of the
employees that they would work harder if they were more appreciated; such authentic act of
service is likely to pay off for PepsiCo (Newman, Schwarz, Cooper & Sendjaya, 2017).
Impact of the authentic leadership on the follower of job satisfaction are first, the
processing of thoughts of the organization or the integral parts of management in the
management process are being balanced in the perfect combinations so that the results are being
accumulated in the perfect results. Job satisfaction for the people, that are working in the
internal or the externally for the organization in all stuff can have a sense of feasibility or trust in
the factor of the job continuance of the stuff. The job of the person is being satisfied by the
authentic leaders so that they can have a positive impact on the lime line. Second, the moral of
the working staff or the employees are being satisfied or it boosts up in the moral senses. The
people of authentic leadership focus on the scene that the moral of the individual is being
boosted up in the real senses. Third, the awareness among the people or the working staff has
increased to the newer level or the increase in the escalation to grow for further in the
designation of the staff or process of becoming the leader in the future as the leader of whole
community (Leroy, Anseel, Gardner, & Sels, 2015).
Impact of the authentic leadership on the follower of organizational commitment is the
organizational commitments predict the behavior as well as the attitude of employees in the
company. It represents how they have positioned themselves in the organization as well as
connected with. Thus, there is a direct impact of authentic leadership on the organizational
commitment as the company would able to manage the balanced process of information and
would able to generate transparency among the relationship. The company would able to create

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consistency between the rules as well as principles by their words and action that represent by
the authentic leaders that cause a higher level of commitment among the employees. Warrant
Buffett is one of the famous authentic leaders as he is considered as the word most renowned
businessman. He showcased the rational transparency by investing in the companies as well as
allows the leaders of such company to get on with the job. He places trust among other
individuals (Valsania, Moriano & Molero, 2016).
From the above analysis, it can be concluded that leadership plays a vital role in the
growth and development of the company. There are two types of leadership which are servant
leadership and authentic leadership. They both have an effective role in the business. The servant
leaders are driven by particular set of values, belief in which they have a role for the benefit as
well as support of those individuals that they are charged to lead whereas authentic leadership
referred as the behavior that draws from their psychological capacities as well as the positive
ethics of the organization which resulted in more transparency, self-awareness, and balanced
information processing relationships between leaders as well as employees. Therefore, such
leadership influences the employees to work in a more effective and efficient manner.

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