WEEk 1 DQ 2

DQ 2 reponse 4

Servant leadership demonstrates leadership without requiring the spotlight so to speak. Rather than using a top to bottom approach as seen in your more classic styles of leadership, this model of servant leadership uses a bottom up approach. The servant leader leads by simply meeting the needs of their followers in a way that promotes growth and autonomy (Huber, 2014). Their role as a servant leader is to serve others by fostering, encouraging, and supporting them so their followers can personally be the best they can be. The goal is to serve and empower others.

Servant leadership is a popular leadership model that many organizations, disciplines, and vocations are adopting. When this model of leadership is used not only are the followers voices heard, their ideas are communicated. When this happens, everyone is more willing to work together as a team. This helps build employee morale, job satisfaction, reduce turnover rates, and improve not only individual but the organizational performance as well. Servant leadership has been positively correlated with unit performance as well as individual performance (Liden, Wayne, Liao, & Meuser, 2013).

 

References

Huber, D. (2014). Leadership and nursing care management (5th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Saunders/Elsevier.

Liden, R. C., Wayne, S. J., Liao, C., & Meuser, J. D. (2013). Servant leadership and serving culture: Influence on individual and unit performance. Academy of Management Journal, 57(5), 1434-1452. doi:10.5465/amj.2013.0034

DQ 2 Response 5

Servant leadership is a leadership model where the leader becomes the servant first. He/she puts the interest and needs of the people first and is committed to accomplishing those needs. In servant leadership, power is shared between the leader and the people being served and people are engaged in decision making where necessary. It is concerned with personal development of the people being served by supporting them to accomplish their individual goals. (Liden et al., 2014).

Reasons why the model is being adopted is because: a) it’s helps in building trust and stronger relationships between the leader and the people being served. People get to be confident that their leader is always there for them. b) It leads to better performance and more engagement. when people know that their interest and needs are the priority, they get motivated to work harder and be more engaged in their work.

Reference:

Liden, R. C., Wayne, S. J., Liao, C., & Meuser, J. D. (2014). Servant leadership and serving culture: Influence on individual and unit performance. Academy of Management Journal, 57(5), 1434-1452.