Spiritual Wisdom in the "New" Leadership

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Cynthia E Lynch ◽  
Thomas D Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Original Source ◽  
Robert Greenleaf ◽  
Building Community ◽  
And Control

In 1977 and 1979, Robert Greenleaf published two books on his concerpt of servant leadership; and since his death, his associates and friends have written a series of books on this same theme, which is important to public administration.  In brief, the books argue for a style of leadership that stresses listening, empathy, healing, persuasion, awareness, foresight, conceptualization, committment of growth to others, stewardship, and building community.  In this article, we argue that the Information Age is creating new organizations in which servant leadership is particularly salient as opposed to the traditional command and control leadership style of management.  Although applauding this literature, we argue that is was very much based on the spiritual wisdom literature, which has existed since humankind first recorded their thoughts.  We further argue that we, as scholars and professionals, can improve this very important useful literature even more by tapping Greenleaf's original source of inspiration.

scholarly journals Does Servant Leadership Behavior Induce Positive Behaviors? A Conceptual Study of Servant Leadership, Psychological Safety and Turnover Intention

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.15) ◽  
pp. 530
Author(s):  
Noor Ahmed Brohi ◽  
Amer Hamzah Jantan ◽  
Sultan Adal Mehmood ◽  
Mansoor Ahmed Khuhro ◽  
Muhammad Saood Aktar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
Psychological Safety ◽  
Servant Leaders ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Positive Behaviors ◽  
Robert Greenleaf ◽  
Conceptual Study

In this paper, we examine how servant leadership and psychological safety may enlighten our understanding of human mechanisms that affect follower outcomes. Servant leadership style as penned by Robert Greenleaf that servant leaders guide followers to adopt the behavior of their leaders by putting others needs above their own. From emerging research on servant leadership, we proposed a model contending that servant leaders increase employees’ psychological safety that organization is a safe place to speak up ideas, opinions and take decisions, which directly influences Employees’ turnover intention. As proposed, servant leadership will be negatively related to Employees’ turnover intention and positively related to psychological safety. Psychological safety will mediate the relationship between servant leadership and turnover intention. 

The bounds of the possible: Nuclear command and control in the information age

1999 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-328
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Bendel ◽  
William S. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Information Age ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
And Control

Social Entrepreneurs as Servant Leaders

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-100
Author(s):  
Devi Akella ◽  
Niveen Eid
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Servant Leaders ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
The Social ◽  
Third Dimension ◽  
And Control

This chapter critically examines the servant leadership style of social entrepreneurs. Qualitative data from social enterprises in Palestine and Lukes third dimension power framework are used to explore the intricate forces of power, manipulation, and domination hidden within the service and follower-oriented model of servant leadership. Insights are provided on how the concept of ‘service', the focal aspect in both social enterprises and servant leadership, could be another facet of soft and insidious power exercised by the social entrepreneurs over their followers. A political model of servant leadership is developed that demonstrates how social entrepreneurs could be imposing power and control over their followers under the guise of social mission, creation of social value, serving and empowering their followers and the community.

scholarly journals The Evaluation of Leadership Development at a State Owned Enterprise in South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1930-1934
Author(s):  
Krishna Govender ◽  
M Mapuranga
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Owned Company ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

The study was sparked by concerns in the Human Resources Department at Denel, a State Owned Company/Enterprise in South Africa, regarding the state of leadership in the organization. The concerns were primarily that the leadership style in general, was ‘command and control’ - autocratic, bureaucratic and lacking the necessary commercial mindset and emotional intelligence needed to deal with employees from a motivational and employee-engagement perspective. The purpose of the research was to conduct an investigation into leadership at Denel and to analyse the perceptions, opinions and concerns of all stakeholders in the company.  A qualitative research methodology was used and the findings confirmed that leadership styles at Denel were indeed traditional command and control, autocratic, lacked a commercial mindset and lacked emotional intelligence. Furthermore, the existing repertoire of leadership development programmes lacked work-based application relevance and the leadership development approaches were haphazard, with no proper focus and direction. Furthermore, there was no measurement of the impact of the leadership development interventions in the company to determine the return on investment. The recommendation is that leaders at Denel should create a culture of talent optimization, be transformed into business leaders and ensure employee motivation and engagement levels are enhanced within the company.

Public Administration Education

2022 ◽  
pp. 165-176
Author(s):  
Nurkhodzha Akbulaev ◽  
Elvettin Akman ◽  
Ferruh Tuzcuoglu
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Education System ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
The State ◽  
State System ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Control ◽  
Command And Control System

Kyrgyzstan is a relatively young state that was previously part of the USSR. As a legacy from this state, Kyrgyzstan received an outdated command-and-control system. Almost immediately, the question of changing the state system became acute. It was necessary to reform the education system for state cadres because earlier employees could be sent from other regions of the USSR. Still, now it became necessary to train qualified personnel for each region completely independently. The subject of the chapter is the training of government personnel in Kyrgyzstan. The work aims to identify all the specific features in the training of government personnel in Kyrgyzstan, compare training with other countries, and highlight the key problems in this area. As a result of the work, the main problems will be summarized, and recommendations for eliminating these difficulties will be proposed. The work will use the following methods: analysis, generalization, description, comparison, synthesis, deduction, induction, and abstraction.

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