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According to the author (Burkus, 2010). “An exceptional recent study of 815 employees and 123 supervisors published in the Journal of Applied Psychology makes a very strong argument for the value of servant leadership at work. The authors found that the practice of servant leadership had important implications for both individuals and the groups they worked in. The study found that servant leadership enhanced both the self-efficacy and the commitment to the supervisor of the individual employee. At the group level, servant leadership lead to employees’ perception that they were treated fairly (justice climate) and the shared perception customer service was expected, supported, and rewarded (positive service climate). These individual and group effects combined to produce a sign

The author state he did second study that showed the importance of creating a positive service climate at work. This new evidence demonstrates that servant leadership can help create just such a positive climate at work. The logic of servant leadership is also completely aligned with the logic of the service-profit chain. This research provides further support for the logic that if you want to grow your business, one of the most important things you need to do as a leader on a daily basis is to take care of your employee’s significant impact on the organizational citizenship behavior of individual employees (Burkus, 2010).”

What I learned from reading this information is service with a smile goes a long way. In simple terms you can get a lot more done with sugar than you can with salt. Doing what you do for the sake of other even if it puts you in place that you don’t like being just to satisfy your organization or to help promote what you are trying to accomplish, you sometimes have to go the extra mild. Don’t be selfish, it is not about you all the time because you can’t get done what is needed to be done without the help of other. To grow and to be prosperous you have to take care of others and the gifts that you give, emotionally, physically, financially will have a great impact on the growth and stability of your organization. Giving yourself first sometimes which mean you may be last is not  bad thing and sometimes it has to be that way so yes I would definitely consider servant leadership, I already see myself in that light in so many ways.  

Burkus, D (2010). Servant Leadership in the Workplace Retrieved from http://davidburkus.com/2010/09/servant-leadership-in-the-workplace/