Summary: Servant Leadership In Diverse Contexts

Servant Leadership in Diverse Contexts The servant leadership contexts within the Indian culture was informative.

Most cultures I find relate in many ways. They all display characteristics of servant leadership. I discovered that the Indian culture holds one to moral and ethics within the culture and religion. In a mirror image of Christians, Indians believe that your destiny is base off the seeds one sows while here on earth. The Indian culture does not recognize their beliefs and morals as servant leadership and have a different way of presenting the concept. One of the ways that one will find that servant leadership is presented different is in their religious practice of Hindu. Over all the Indian culture diverse context and religion

Karma means the action that one execute and Yoga means intelligent. In an Indians perspective Karma yoga is a technique for intelligently performing actions or where one’s soul is not tied to one’s action in the Indian culture it means the same thing (Mulla & Krishman, 2014). Karma-Yoga good intent is used to build moral development in a leader and the leader subordinates. Karma Yoga have dimensions that consist of duty-orientation, moral sensitivity, moral judgement, moral motivation, and equanimity. These dimensions promote moral character in which enable leaders to effectively provide instructions and have an impact on subordinates to work towards organizational goal with an ethical approach (Mulla & Krishnan, 2014). All the components of the Indians belief in Karma Yoga are like the meaning of servant leadership. Indians philosophies, they believe the one who practice and are true to Karma-yoga feels an obligation to others and are empathetic to their needs without the desire of a reward. The Indians believe that the deep beliefs of Karma-Yoga will help leader to rise high percentages in job performs. There was a study conducted between the characteristics of servant-leadership and a precursor of job gratification in the Indians organizations. The study outcome was positive and proved to leaders that the characteristics of servant-leadership would

We all within our cultural beliefs choose to operate in that belief. Most of us are not aware that most of us share slight differences and more similarities to each other culture. In the Indian culture and Hindu religion, they share many differences and similarities from the servant-leadership context. The Hindu religion believe in good and bad death that associates in the way someone may choose to live their life. Do they live a life of selfless love or do they live a life that do not serve others? Hindus teach their believers of the Godhead which is like the Christianity Trinity. The Godhead in the Indian culture is due to the philosophical lessons of the Upanishads. The third part of the Indian’s Godhead includes a destroyer whereas Christian’s Godhead includes the Holy spirit. In addition, to the lessons of the Upanishads the Indian culture believe in Karma yoga. Which is a term used to identify intelligent performing actions. Although this term is supposed to have a positive connotation it could also mean something negative in the Indians convictions. With that being said everyone is responsible for their own character or choices in life. Nevertheless, Karma Yoga is supposed to be a useful purpose to build moral development within the Indians culture or in their job gratifications. Moral development within itself hold some important dimensions of character. The positive result of the study that was done gives