SERVANT LEADERSHIP AND SUCCESS

Servant Leadership in Organizations

Abstract

Be a servant, having a servant's heart, indicating the nature and the true character of a person. When the servant discovers the opportunity to make a difference in leadership, and he puts himself in the role of leader, then it becomes servant-leader in providing the workplace the ability to love others that has grown. With the current tight labor market, the servant leadership model is natural for a growing number of companies that compete at the level of human capital. Company executives quickly realize that if they want to increase productivity and staff loyalty, employees need to feel appreciated, encouraged and inspired. We find that servant leaders are effective because they care so the needs of people after they reach their full potential and therefore do their best work. An advantage of considering leadership in this way is that it distracts us from the leadership and dominant self-interest and that it looks more like those in charge how to respect, promote and motivate people who would relate to them. But the attitudes of love and respect do they come easily to humans? Can we assess the other simply for who they are? Can we excite no other ulterior motive for the help we can offer to others to trigger their full potential? Altruism is not an innate characteristic of human behavior outside the immediate family, people are not naturally loved or socially served. This paper aims to find out how can servant leadership help employees achieve success in organizations and how can this concept benefit the organization.

Servant Leadership in Organizations

Introduction

A leader is one who serves others, raises the relationship between supervisor and subordinate to a higher level than the leader-manager. Robert Wood Johnson (Robert Wood Johnson), founded a small company, Johnson & Johnson and has turned it into one of the world's largest corporations, summarizes his concept of management in one word: "Serve." In the mission statement, "Our management philosophy," he writes, "The leader must serve the people carrying the liability to it." Johnson died more than thirty years ago, but his ideas have not lost their relevance today (Bunchen, 1998).

A leader who serves others, refuses to private interests for the sake of short-term interests of others, and he helps them grow and develop, providing opportunities to meet the material and spiritual needs. These leaders put service above all employees, customers, equity participants and society as a whole. The meaning of life - to serve people and unlock their potential.

In recent years, much interest has grown to the leaders of this type, because now a lot of attention paid to concepts of power transmission, participation of employees in resolving corporate problems and create an atmosphere of mutual trust.

The concept of a leader, serving others, was first described by Robert Greenleaf (Robert Greenleaf). His ideas greatly influenced by Hermann Hesse's novel "Pilgrimage to the country of the East» (Hermann Hesse, Journey to the East). The protagonist of the novel by Leo first appeared before the ...