Servant Leadership in India: A Journey from Past to Present

Mishra, Adya; Mahapatra, Mamata

doi:10.20968/rpm/2018/vl6/i2/141027

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“…It implies that to ensure the WB of the Indian employees and to make them committed to the organizations, corporate executives and leaders should demonstrate SL style. Notably, these leaders are equipped to address organizational issues including low efficiency, work pressure, and absenteeism because of traits such as tolerance, devotion, empathy, and selfless love as well as spirituality and a caring temperament (Mishra & Mahapatra, 2019). And, these qualities of a SL style make it an ideal and preferred approach from the employees’ perspective as a way to promote their welfare, especially in the Indian culture which is accompanied by a lack of gender equality, high power distance, and humanistic inclination (Gupta et al, 2002).…”

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Can Mindfulness be an Alternative for Servant Leadership? A Well-being Perspective

Goyal,

Sheoran,

Sharma

2023

Business Perspectives and Research

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Servant leaders go beyond their self-centeredness and genuinely work toward strengthening the well-being (WB) of their followers. However, organizations cannot solely rely on servant leaders to stimulate the WB of their workforce as numerous factors affect servant leadership (SL), which may hinder its successful implementation in the workplace. Therefore, it is essential to determine to what extent an individual trait such as mindfulness can compensate for this leadership. Being focused, optimistic, and present in the moment fosters the WB of a person, which may reduce their reliance on external leadership. Thus, by relying on the “substitutes for leadership theory,” this study examines the moderating role of mindfulness in the SL and WB relationship. The data were collected from the 265 Indian service sector employees and were analyzed using the SPSS-20 and AMOS-21 software. The study’s results revealed that SL and mindfulness were significantly related to employee WB. Moreover, employees’ mindfulness moderates the SL and WB relationship. Also, mindfulness partly substitutes for a low level of SL in the workplace. Hence, by organizing meditation and yoga sessions in the organizations, employees’ mindfulness can be enhanced which reduce the reliance on the leadership style of the managers.

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