Examining servant leadership effects on team satisfaction: An agent-based approach

Abstract

Servant leadership is a fairly recent concept in the gamut of leadership styles. It has received wide acceptance, lending itself well in public serving organizations and bringing positive impact on organization wide development. Existing literature has put forth evidences from the past where social and spiritual leaders have given importance to others' needs, aspirations and interests above their own. Such leaders have been driven by the goal to serve others. Yet, research till date has not portrayed a concrete idea of what would be the impact of servant leadership in different teams and scenarios. Since researchers in the past have claimed that servant leadership offers the potential to improve organizational leadership in many settings, this chapter attempts to discover the finer details of the effects of servant leadership in team context through agent-based model.