The Servant as Leader

Exploring Servant Leadership Instrument for Social Enterprise (Cooperative)

“…Greenleaf (1970) mentioned to be genuine leader they must not afraid to share power and quality performance because "power shared is power multiplied, not lessened". Daft (2005) supported that power is not the primary purpose and aim of the leader.…”

“…While Bagget (1997) mentioned first and foremost, a good leader serves others. Service is the core of servant leadership (Block, 1993;De Pree, 1997;Fairholm, 1997, 1998, and Greenleaf, 1977. Fairholm (1997) added that leaders prepare others to embrace a service orientation when they model service through their own actions.…”

“…Greenleaf (1970) added effective leaders are deeply committed to the profession and personal growth of those around them. This statement supported those criteria mentioned above because servant leaders need internal strength and desire to develop others.…”

The relationship between school principals and teachers servant leadership

“…Scholars explore variety of theoretical approaches to leadership phenomena, such as trait, behavioral, contingency, path-goal, situational, cognitive resource, leader-follower, transactional and transformational, authentic leadership, participative and distributed leadership p -just to mention few. The theory of servant leadership has its origins in Robert Greenleaf (1970) research. He has made an assumption, that "The servant leader is servant first.…”

“…It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead" (Greenleaf, 1970). The question was brought in, whether the servant leader allows the person to grow?…”