Essay On Servant Leadership

2. Define what servant leadership means to you. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this style of leadership in a modern business enterprise? What does John 15:9-17 say about servant leadership? How can we avoid making servant leadership just another tactic for success?

Servant leadership is a set of practices that enhances the lives of individuals; in some cases it builds better organizations and just a more caring workplace. The advantages are obvious it gives you a more caring workplace. I think happy workers are more productive workers. A disadvantage would be you always have selfish people that are working for themselves and not for the team that would take advantage of you and the workforce. In the first part of John we are to love one another as we love ourselves. We are to keep the commandments and abide in His love. In the second half of John talks about being friends of Jesus and that we are no longer slaves we know what the master is doing but He has called us friends. “For all things I’ve heard from my father I have made known to you.”(NASB). Everything we do in the workplace to get workers to work more productively I would consider tactics. There is a fine line between too much leniency and not enough leniency in the work place, so the way to avoid making servant leadership just another tactic is to have a nice balance.

4. is the statement, “good ethics is good business,” really true? Is this sufficient motivation for ethical behavior you are in the workplace or is something else needed? Discuss. How does Matthew 6:33 apply to this maxim?

I think good ethics is good business. You make the employees feel ownership in an organization, to which they will go the extra mile to meet the customers’ needs, and away...

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...nd how only 3.5% of the black applicants were supervisors and the black employees were ten points lower than the white employees. This type of monitoring shows discrimination. (Boatright, 2012)

2d. I didn’t see these two types of sexual harassment in the book but just from past work experiences I do know of these two types of sexual harassment. Quid Pro Quo occurs when an employee gets on the promotion track or even gets to keep his/her job is based on if the employee submitted to or rejected sexual advances or inappropriate sexual comments. Another type is “Hostile work environment.” This type of sexual harassment occurs when a co-worker or supervisor in the workplace makes sexual advances or comments to an employee that makes the working environment of the employee offensive and hostile. In general, the comments tend to affect the employee's ability to do her job.