"Alright! A master’s degree in management and a bachelor’s degree in business. It looks like you are qualified to lead these employees. Welcome to the team." This type of interview strategy to find the most competent manger, based on education or other qualifications, has been used since the early days of the industrial revolution. Nonetheless, many of the major companies have been changing their strategy in recent years. Instead of hiring people based on qualification alone, companies hire mangers based on their attitude of management; especially an attitude of servitude. This paper will address the strengths and weaknesses of both servant leadership and competency based leadership, compare the two, explain why competency based leadership is popular in most organizations, and explain why competency based leaders are able to also demonstrate servant leadership qualities.
Strengths and Weaknesses
In examining any of the major leadership styles the weaknesses and strengths must be exposed. This paper’s goal is to persuade the reader that both leadership styles have many benefits. However, it will also show the weaknesses of these styles in order to allow the reader to make an informed decision between the two forms of leadership.
Competency Based Leadership
The competency based leadership focuses primarily on the abilities, experience, and the amount of education that the potential manager has. According to Kaslow, Falender, and Grus, "Supervisors in leadership positions require a new armamentarium of knowledge, skills, and attitudes to motivate interest in their supervising faculty/staff in evolving clinical practice and supervision" (Kaslow, Falender, & Grus, 2012). The hope of these three parts to leadership is that th...
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Servant leadership, as defined by Kretiner and Kinkicki (2015, p.486), is putting the needs of others, including employees, customers, and community ahead of one’s own needs. This management style requires selflessness and humility from management so the organization can focus on serving key stakeholders. There are ten characteristics of a servant-leader as identified in the text
Servant leadership is a philosophy and set of practices that augments the lives of individuals, builds better organizations, and creates a more just and caring world, they put the team first, and themselves second (MindTools, 2015). Servant leaders are able to demonstrate their traits through interaction with followers and other leaders within the organization. The characteristics of servant leaders include their commitment to the growth of people, stewardship, and building community, and provide leaders with the opportunity to experience change and to invite followers to change (Savage-Austin & Honeycutt 2011). Servant leadership encourages leaders and followers to ‘raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality’, and set their leadership focus: follower’s first, organizations second, their own needs last (Sendjaya, Sarros, & Santora, 2008). The servant leader focuses on the needs of others to include team members.
The Servant Leader discusses the importance of leaders who adopt a service oriented attitude in which they care for the needs of others before their own. A servant leader need not be an actual servant or have ever been a servant to become a servant leader. Rather, a servant leader is born with or adopts an “others first” disposition. Climbing through the ranks may help to create a servant leader, though it is not necessary. When leaders choose to see that the needs of their followers or their organizations are the highest priority they become servants.
You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink is a proverb I have heard since I was young. Leadership is the skill of influencing people to accomplish goals (Huber, 2014). In today’s world with policy and technological changes the leaders must use their leadership skills to not only get the horse to the water, have him drink, but also do it with a smile an invite others to join him. Leaders use a variety of styles to accomplish their goals. I will discuss the leadership style that I utilize most often, how my style relates to leadership theories and the work type environment it is most useful in.
Steward or Servant-leadership characterizes a model of leadership in which the leader undertakes a supportive, service orientated role among stakeholders and employees. The leader assists by building the skills of employees, minimizing obstacles, and enabling creative problem solving and innovation. “The characteristics associated with servant leadership include incorporating active listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, commitment to the growth of people, and community building” (Spears, 2002). Servant leaders build up their employees and surround themselves with good people and then motivate them to achieve greatness and this starts at the top within BMW
Servant leadership is a perplexing theory. It takes on radical ideas like a lifetime employment policy, or employee-wide furlough, to illustrate how putting the leader at the service of their employees can result in efficient leadership. “When individuals engage in servant leadership, it is likely to improve outcomes at the individual, organizational, and societal levels (PSU, 2014)". The servant leadership actions of Charlie Kim and Bob Chapman depict how the proper use of servant leadership creates trust, and inspires productivity; benefiting their organization, their employees, and
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The world growing more and more complex and institutions need managers who can adapt to the increasing pace of innovation. Servant leadership and transformative leadership are some of the new management techniques and ideas that address the increasing complexities of the world. However, as these new ideas are developed and implemented, which one works the best in today working environment? Which one of these management styles has a greater impact on those who use and those who are managed? Finally, which of these ideas is sustainable into an uncertain future?
However, in recent years, burnouts have been noticed outside of work: marriages, athletes, but in particular, students. When being examined, students were ranked middle to upper level of the burnout scale compared to educators, counselors, nurses and, emergency medical service (EMS) responders. This has indicated that students are experiencing burnouts during their learning process. Student burnout can lead to a high number of absences, less motivation to do work that is required, or even drops out of school. This is evident that student burnout has a negative impact on academic learning. There are several reasons on the importance of student burnout: student burnout may be the underlying key to understanding student behaviors during their studies, student burnout may also influence their relationships, and the frequency of student burnout may affect the general reputation of the institution for new students. Student academic burnout has been explored in the relation of three factors. Those factors are as listed: a low sense of achievement; the decline feeling of proficiency and the want to be able to succeed, depersonalization; the unsettling feelings of detachment, and emotional exhaustion; the feeling of your inner resources being drained. As a college student that has experienced academic burnout, I can say that the three factors; a low sense of achievement, depersonalization, and emotional exhaustion are all true. The feeling of academic burnout is tiring. It makes you feel as if you are weak, and all you want to do is sleep. Academic burnout feels as if all of a sudden you can’t comprehend anything and there is a fog that you cannot see beyond. Academic burnout, however, is not just because of me not understanding the
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In this paper I will look at the four major leadership styles, their characteristics, advantages, disadvantages, and in what situations a particular leadership style is desired. Additionally, I will look at my leadership style and how I acquired this style throughout my career.