Servant Leadership: Global Perspectives and Christian Values

This report provides an analysis of servant leadership, comparing Western and Christian perspectives with other global viewpoints. It highlights the influence of servant leadership and Christianity in the West, emphasizing its benefits such as a healthy working environment and quality of care. The report contrasts this with perspectives from South Africa and Confucianism in China, which also emphasize serving others. It further discusses examples of servant leadership in charities like FMSC, and organizations like WHO and cabin crew, which indirectly follow Christian morality by promoting diversity, respect for different cultures, and selfless service. The report concludes that servant leadership is a global concept that promotes diversity and respect for different cultures, irrespective of their origin.

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Servant leadership and Christianity is a western concept. Numerous studies have been
conducted to compare this approach with different cultures. Although, servant leadership and
Christianity have more influence in the west now, it is growing around the world. According
to Merino, servant leadership and Christianity in the west is essential for the benefit it
provides to the organization such as healthy working environment, humble atmosphere and
quality of care (Ertel, 2017). On the other hand, South African perspective of servant
leadership is that one’s life is about the betterment of others rather than the self. By doing
this, the self is gradually enriched and formed. The Christian concept of leadership is to work
with humility for others. Similarly, Confucianism in China is also a servant leadership
deriving its values from Christianity, where people are asked to treat others with sensitivity
and generosity. It is built on the idea of tolerance, wisdom and forgiveness. Furthermore, the
west has many servant leadership charities like Taskforce global health, Feeding America and
others. The FMSC in the USA also works towards saving children from poverty and treating
them with compassion. They follow the Christian concept where every child matters and also
arrange for sponsors and donors for the children. UK’s Greenleaf center is also a servant
leadership program that emphasizes a holistic approach towards work, promotes a sense of
harmony and community. There are various NGO’s globally that work towards the
betterment of people and society. Nursing, cabin crew, WHO and others are multiple forms
of servant leadership that have been recognized globally and indirectly follow the Christian
morality.
Nurses have a defined moral and ethical parameters that help them to interact with
others. They are always humble and strives to work for the betterment of their patients. They
put themselves after others which is a Christian value. They respect and treat all patients
irrespective of caste and creed. They selflessly serve the organisation in which they are
working, that is again a Christian attitude (O'brien, 2017). WHO is a global servant leader

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that works for the improvement of health globally. They promote awareness regarding
diseases and improve preventive measures, respect the citizens of all nationalities, and work
for them selflessly and do not support racial discrimination and spread the message of
brotherhood. Cabin crew is another servant leadership aspect that unknowingly follows
concepts of Christian morality. They put people first and serve them without any personal
motive. They promote diversity and respect all boarders irrespective of their culture. The
endlessly serve the people and contribute to the community by promoting and respecting
multiculturalism as well as diversity.
Therefore servant leadership and Christianity are not only restricted to western
culture; it has gone beyond that and ha snow become a global concept. All servant leaders
intentionally or unintentionally follow the idea of Christian morality, promote diversity and
respect different cultures.

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References
Ertel, S. (2017). Why Servant Leadership?. Servant Leadership: Theory & Practice, 4(2), 12.
O'brien, M. E. (2017). Spirituality in nursing. Jones & Bartlett Learning.