Servant Leadership Dimension in Higher Education

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the dimensions of servant leadership in higher education and its differences between state and private universities. Servant leadership dimensions used are six dimensions of SLBS (Servant Leadership Behavior Scale): Voluntary Subordination, Authentic Self, Covenantal Relationship, Responsible Morality, Transcendental Spirituality and Transforming Influence. Samples are taken from tertiary institutions that have a ranking of institution A, thus, in regard to private universities, lecturers of Ciputra University Surabaya were chosen with 61 people from five study programs, namely, International Business Management, Accounting, Master of Management, Marketing Communication and Entrepreneurship and Humanities, while state universities were Sam Ratulangi University Manado with 111 people from four study programs, namely, Accounting, Economics, Economic Development, and Management. The result shows the highest mean private university on the Covenantal Relationship dimension and the lowest on Authentic Self, while the highest public university lies in Responsible Morality and the lowest in Transcendental Spirituality. Following Lavene's Test for Quality of Variances, the result is the same data variant and a t-Test for two independent samples has the result in that there were significant differences in the dimensions of Transcendental Spirituality. For this reason, servant leadership can create a culture that is in accordance with the situation of the workplace through four values, namely transcendental beliefs, interconnectedness, sense of mission and wholeness of members in accordance with the mission to be achieved.

Servant Leadership Style: A Key to Effective Good Governance and Sustainable Public Service Delivery in Africa

“…• A six-dimensional servant leadership model (Melinda, et al, 2019), that is: voluntary dependence, authentic self, covenant relationship, responsible ethics, spiritual transcendence, influence conversion.…”

Pendekatan Pembelajaran Matematika Realistik (PMR) Pada Materi Pecahan Dapat Meningkatkan Hasil Belajar Siswa Kelas III/B SDI Wae Nakeng Kecamatan Lembor Tahun Pelajaran 2021/2022

“…Pengetahuan tentang belajar biasanya diperoleh dengan mengamati perilaku seseorang (Melinda & Antonio, 2019) atau sekelompok orang yang melakukan suatu tugas belajar, secara berulang-ulang dalam kondisi tertentu (Tambak, 2016). Hasil dari observasi tersebut menghasilkan prinsip-prinsip pembelajaran yang dapat diuji (Nur et al, 2017).…”

Insights in Leadership in Education: 2022

“…Servant leadership studies in the context of higher education have been carried out in various countries, such as Palestine (Aboramadan et al, 2020a,b), Germany (Moll and Kretzschmar, 2017), America (Sahawneh and Benuto, 2018;Gooch et al, 2021), Turkey (Erkutlu and Chafra, 2015), Pakistan (Amin et al, 2019;Haider et al, 2020;, Ethiopia (Gedifew and Bitew, 2019;Bitew and Gedifew, 2020), the Philippines (Ramos, 2020), Arab (Shafai, 2018), Kuwait (Alshammari et al, 2019), and Spain and China (Latif and Marimon, 2019;Latif, Dami et al 10.3389/feduc.2022.1036668 2020). In Indonesia, servant leadership research in higher education is related to measuring, verifying, and validating the dimensions of servant leadership (Handoyo, 2010;Melinda et al, 2020), the influence of servant leadership on lecturer performance through trust in leaders (Filatrovi et al, 2018;Keradjaan et al, 2020), the analysis of the dimensions of servant leadership and the differences between public and private universities in this regard (Melinda et al, 2019), servant leadership and university performance (Melinda et al, 2018;Quddus et al, 2020), the analysis of the character of servant leadership in public and private universities in the city of Palu (Adda and Buntuang, 2018) and the characteristics of servant leadership and their implications for higher education (Jondar, 2021). Meanwhile, servant leadership studies in Christian higher education are dominated by non-research (conceptual), literature reviews, and church ministry (Adda and Buntuang, 2018;Hancock, 2019;Prajogo, 2019;Apriano, 2020;Siburian, 2020;Silalahi, 2020;Hartono et al, 2021;Jondar, 2021), development, verifica...…”