Servant Leadership: The Exemplifying Behaviours

Abstract

Over the years, there has been a keen concern to understand behaviours that leaders can adopt in order to lead and influence others to achieve agreed upon goals. Servant leadership is one of the emerging contemporary leadership styles that are receiving a lot of attention. This has been occasioned by a world wide desire for more ethical and caring leadership in organizations. This leadership style has been adopted by some of the best companies in the world with great success. The purpose of this paper is to highlight some of the very exemplifying behaviours of servant leaders, which if embraced by modern leaders can greatly enhance the motivation, commitment and performance of employees for increased productivity.