Servant leadership in Christian worldview
Servant leadership is one of the most significant parts of a Christian worldview. Servant leadership keeps accordance with Christianity for maintaining empathy and commitment to ensure the growth of followers which is described in the Bible. The significant parts of servant leadership, according to a Christian worldview are as follows:
- Empathy healing
- Responsibility to ensure growth and development and stewardship
- Listening power with a persuasion capability
- Community building
- Conceptualization and awareness.
Hence, the principles of servant leadership are
- Supporting team
- Growing people
- Listening capability
- Community development
- Reflecting and learning
All five principles are significant parts of management practices. Reasons are mentioned below:
- Helping team: Supporting the team is the most important tasks of a leader. He needs to be capable enough to guide and support each of his team members to achieve a goal.
- Growing people: Leaders should assist the team members to grow both individually and collectively. Growth should be ensured by providing proper training and ensuring rewards and recognition to employees.
- Listening capability: Leaders should have the ability to listen to each of the issues of employees. It properly helps to address the ultimate problems and conflicting issues.
- Community development: Community signifies the entire organization, including all the team members. A leader must be focused on ensuring holistic development of his team.
- Reflecting and learning: Leaders must evaluate their performance and standard to address flaws in execution. Thus, creating a learning environment can be useful for self-development of a leader.
Servant leadership influences both individual and group performance by supporting both individual and team. They assist in growing individual and group performance that helps to create a culturally steady organizational behaviour. Moreover, servant leadership creates a; learning opportunity that supports community growth.