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Research Paper Outline: Servant Leadership

Introduction

· Definition and the history of the term servant leadership and example of how servant leadership works.

Research Hypothesis

· Hypothesis 1- Servant leadership leads to better organizational performance.

· Hypothesis 2- Political skills and servant leadership work together leading to employee creativity and positive workplace culture.

· Hypothesis 3- Servant leadership increases employee satisfaction.

Research methodology

· Sampling of 50 random junior employees and corporate managers from three companies in the United States to interview them on servant leadership.

Literature review

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Findings

· Evidence of servant leadership across the sample of individuals evaluated

· General information observed regarding servant leadership

Research limitations

· Failed in establishing causality hence creating a gap that needs to be addressed in future through the application of different study designs.

· The study of servant leadership is part of the large topic that cannot be summarized into a small-paged paper. Therefore limited information was touched on regarding the subject matter.

Recommendations

· Recommendation 1- Managers should embrace servant leadership because of the benefits it brings to the organizations they lead.

· Recommendation 2- Employees should support servant leaders when they set examples for them.

· Recommendation 3- Excellent collaboration between the servant leader and the employees they are leading should be created for servant leadership to succeed.

Conclusion

· Summary of what is understood by the term servant leadership summary of the paper’s main points.

References

Giambatista, R., McKeage, R., & Brees, J. (2020). Cultures of Servant Leadership and Their Impact. The Journal of Values-Based Leadership, 13(1), 12. Retrieved from: https://scholar.valpo.edu/jvbl/vol13/iss1/12/

Chiniara, M., & Bentein, K. (2016). Linking servant leadership to individual performance: Differentiating the mediating role of autonomy, competence and relatedness need satisfaction. The Leadership Quarterly, 27(1), 124-141.

DeConinck, J., & DeConinck, M. B. (2017). The relationship between servant leadership perceived organizational support, performance, and turnover among business to business salespeople. Archives of Business Research, 5(10).

Eva, N., Robin, M., Sendjaya, S., van Dierendonck, D., & Liden, R. C. (2019). Servant leadership: A systematic review and call for future research. The Leadership Quarterly, 30(1), 111-132.

Gandolfi, F., & Stone, S. (2018). Leadership, leadership styles, and servant leadership. Journal of Management Research, 18(4), 261-269.

Jaiswal, N. K., & Dhar, R. L. (2017). The influence of servant leadership, trust in leader and thriving on employee creativity. Leadership & Organization Development Journal.

Lacroix, M., & Pircher Verdorfer, A. (2017). Can servant leaders fuel the leadership fire? The relationship between servant leadership and followers’ leadership avoidance. Administrative Sciences, 7(1), 6.

Williams, W. A., Brandon, R. S., Hayek, M., Haden, S. P., & Atinc, G. (2017). Servant leadership and followership creativity. Leadership & Organization Development Journal.