Wilson's Stewardship Model: Benefits and Challenges

This research paper critically analyzes Wilson's Stewardship Model, focusing on its core principles and application within an organizational context. The paper begins with an introduction to the stewardship concept, highlighting the role of stewards in fostering organizational development through aligning values and promoting trust and motivation. The discussion section delves into the theoretical underpinnings of stewardship, contrasting it with agency theory and emphasizing the importance of stewards acting collectively for the betterment of the organization and its stakeholders. It then explores the benefits of stewardship, such as enhancing service quality and fostering a holistic approach to wealth and well-being, and examines how stewardship can motivate employees by aligning their personal goals with organizational objectives. The paper then analyzes the potential benefits, including improved financial and social investments, and challenges that might arise when implementing the model. Key elements of the stewardship model, including stewardship actions, actors, motivational aspects, and leverage points, are discussed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the model. The conclusion summarizes the analysis, emphasizing the value of the stewardship approach and its potential for creating a more sustainable and ethical organizational environment. The paper uses scholarly references to support its analysis and conclusions.

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Introduction:
This research paper is focused on the analysis of the Stewardship Model stated by
Wilson. Stewardship had been one of the most focused researched topic in previous decades.
The stewards play a great role and they are responsible for the development of the
organization in terms of some theories related to the agencies and the stewardship theories are
mostly related to the alignment of the values of an organization and the management of the
values. Trust and motivation is the basic principle of the steward driven companies.
Therefore, the reduction of the supervision of the stewards are the best interests for an
organization as in the theories suggest. The brief explanation of the theory will be presented
with a critical aspect. The analysis of the potential benefits and the challenges that m ay occur
in the further times if the stewardship theories are applied to an organization. The key
elements of the stewardship model will be discussed in order to make the statement of the
research paper relate to the concept of Stewardship Model of Wilson.
Discussion:
The theories related to the Stewardship offer several perspectives on the motivation
and controlling of the business organization, in order to limit the agency theories related to
the stewardship. The main focus main focus on the theory is about the diversity between the
business agent and the owner of the organization. The stewardship theory offers the
possibilities of the actors and the goals set by the agents in order to go beyond the self -
interest and for the betterment and welfare of the organization (Morris, Wilson & Kelly,
2015). The stewardship theory refers to the stewards who don’t work individually but
collectively as a team in order to make the returns or the benefits make happen and the agents
related to the stewards needed to be instrumentally motivated in order to make the agency
theory happen between all of them. The theory well depicted the idea of maximising the

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effort of the stewards to involve them in the process of benefiting the organizational
behaviour. Therefore, the steward’s behaviour to the organization is not like self – serving
manner rather they act well for the organizational development and the betterment of the
stake holders.
The best interest of a company is often reduced to only maximising the performance
aiming at the financial growth only. Thus, the stewards possess some agendas related to the
rewards they ought to achieve through the meeting the objectives they are assigned to do. In
order to explain this theory, the main focus is based on maximising the benefit of the
shareholders capital, the stewardship theory has stated. The stewards fulfil the targets in order
to meet their personal expectations as in the common perspective (Cockburn et al. 2018). The
motivational aspect in the stewardship theory states that the employees will tend to work
towards meeting the organizational objectives if they are made aware of the fact that this will
also help in meeting their personal goals as well. The stewards also believe in the fact that
this organizational behaviour may lead them to have positive outcomes in the growth of
income as well as in the recognition.
Analysis of the Potential Benefits:
The stewardship theories presented many benefits in the financial and social
investments of the companies related to the stewarded services organizations in terms of their
stakeholders over the time (Morris, Wilson & Kelly, 2015). In a broad aspect, stewardship
enhances the connection between the services and enhancing of the quality and quantity of
the objectives as well. In order to depict the benefits of the stewardship, it means the impact
of different types of players formed a team in order to win a match. The theories related to
stewardship reveals that the service is an approach to provide help in a business organization
or venture to go for more holistic way in the aspects of having wealth and well - being of the

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service objectives. The stewardship theories suggest that it is an act to protect and enhance
the development process of an organization in order to create an economic end societal values
over the time period. The stewardship process includes many processes that are associated
with the expectations related to personal pleasures and satisfaction through the achievements
of target objectives and the psychological needs to fulfil the self – acceptance, the feelings of
competence of self – sufficiency has a remarkable connection to the sense of autonomous of
wellbeing of a stewardship (Cockburn et al. 2018).
The beneficial environmental related to local stewardship can be offering two basic
intrinsic motivational ways like, the underlying ethical ways or morals and values in order to
create belief in the stewardship and a basic need of self – determination in the stewards to
keep them going on their objectives given. Firstly, the model of stewardship suggests that
stewards can be intrinsically motivated by the ethics of that organization and the moral
perspectives related to the values and beliefs. The main concept of stewardship is mainly
based on the underlying ethical ways that are modelled to provide extensive benefits to the
environmental philosophy. The ethics of caring and benefitting is deeply rooted to the
connection to the non – human species or environmental aspects that will be very effective in
the ways of the stewardship models to make a special places in the actions related to motivate
people in ways to take the stewardship actions (Morris, Wilson & Kelly, 2015). The ethics of
stewardship is mainly derived from the moral sense of a person’s moral responsibility in front
of the almighty God or any other higher powers that seek creation. Secondly, the actions of
stewardship can be intrinsically motivated in the ways to desire related to autonomy and
competence that effects the universal needs of desiring and have an effect in their future
related to feel connected or belong in a group to refer competence in order to act in fulfilling
one’s goal or accomplish and grow to learn achieving the idea of ultimate human aim to fulfil
self - actualization.

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Key Elements of the Model of Stewardship:
Stewardship Action – The activities, behavioural aspects and the approach to provide
technologies in order to protect them and restore them by sustainably using the environment.
Stewardship actions happen at several scales, it is projected by addressing the issues that are
complex in nature, and they are led by various types of actors or else the groups focused on
their characteristics, motivational aspects and their capabilities (Jensen & Remmen, 2017).
Actors of Stewardship – Several types of individuals and the configurations of the stewards
all across the scales of organizations into the stewardship initiatives. The actors in the
stewardship model have different types of desired right, role and their own responsibilities.
The actor may will to influence, motivate and be able to participate and affect the
performance in the model of stewardship in a positive way.
Motivational Aspect of Stewardship - The innovative incentive structures and the effect of
intrinsic or extrinsic reasons led people to take actions in order to care for the environment as
to care for themselves as well. The intrinsic motivational aspects are mainly associated with
the actions to keep personal pleasure in the stewards and maintain satisfaction in the process
of aligning them with ethical, valued and moral beliefs and the sense of achievement related
to the psychological needs led them to the aspect of self – actualization (Cockburn et al.
2018). The extrinsic motivations are mainly associated with the expectation of fulfilling the
objective and celebrate the achievement by having separable outcomes that are included in
the ways of perceiving the direct costs and the benefits related to the stewarding resources
and helps to provide external rewards and sanctions. An individual or a group’s motivational
approaches define the rational related to the actions, it consistently helps to clarify the
obligations and provide willpower to act in the working conditions.

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Leverages in the Stewardship Model – The model contains some specific leverages that
contains or points at different types of local and external organizations that the actors might
intervene in order to produce changes in the stewardship system of an organization in order to
facilitate the desirable changes in the ecological and social aspects related to the outcomes of
an organization. Leverage points are related to the factors introducing new actors,
improvements of incentives, and the augmenting capacity of governance and promoting
several actions related to monitoring outcomes to facilitate a developing and adaptive
management.
Conclusion:
This study briefly discusses the aspects of the Wilson’s Model of Stewardship and
makes a review of the model by analysing some major points lying in the theory. This
research paper is explained with the model of Wilson and explained a critical point of view to
justify the choices of global scale relating issues that lead perceptions in the process of
stewardship processes needed to meet the benefits and challenges. However, the analysis of
the model of stewardship is explained with the potential benefits of the theory and the
challenges that stewardship model can encounter in the process of applying them in the fields
of organizations. This paper addresses a brief narrative by articulating a discussion of the key
elements of the model of stewardship by Wilson. Ultimately, the foremost aim of the paper is
explain the stewardship model as a valuable approach and provide critical aspects in order to
make a holistic concept of analysis of the potential benefits and challenges in the
organizational setting of stewardship.

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