Servant Leadership Theory Development & Measurement

Abstract

A servant leadership has been raised up in recent years since Robert Greenleaf publish his personal journal about his own experience journey. Years by years, academia becoming interested about this leadership style. With the uniqueness of different term of leader and servant, servant leadership still tried to find out the empirical and theoretical research in theory building. Servant leadership theory development talks about the concept and the model of this leadership style, however servant leadership measurement tried to find empirical research to measure servant leadership concept. Both of this stream are important to strengthen the servant leadership theory building in academic perspective. However, there are some critics of servant leadership theory and measurement development both in methodology and theory building.