The Antecedents and Influences of Servant Leadership

Abstract

Servant leadership, which prioritizes the interests of followers and other shareholders, is considered as a unique approach that offers much potential to enrich our understanding of leadership. Despite the robust findings on how servant leaders motivate their teams and employees to achieve better performance outcomes, what is much less often a research focus are the questions of what motivates leaders to demonstrate servant leadership and how servant leaders encourage followers’ serving, prosocial behaviors that benefit people within and outside organizations. To extend our conceptual and empirical understanding of servant leadership, we offer five papers in this symposium that examine the causes and outcomes of servant leadership, highlighting how servant leadership can be developed through leaders’ own experiences and how their servant behaviors can inspire followers to contribute to others at work and to the larger community. Exploring its Relationships with Perceived Prosocial Impact, Power Distance, and Servant Leadership Presenter: Jia Hu; Ohio State U. Presenter: Chih-Hsun Chuang; National Chung Hsing U. Presenter: Robert C Liden; U. of Illinois at Chicago Volunteering as a Training Ground for Servant Leadership Presenter: Haoying Xu; U. of Illinois at Chicago Presenter: John Lynch; U. of Illinois at Chicago Presenter: Sandy J. Wayne; U. of Illinois at Chicago Presenter: Siyi Tao; U. of Illinois at Chicago The Mediating Processes Linking Servant Leadership to OCB and Emotional Exhaustion Presenter: Dong Pei; U. of Missouri Presenter: Ann Peng; U. of Missouri Presenter: Riguang Gao; Jiangxi U. of Finance and Economics Presenter: Biying Wang; Jiangxi Normal U. How does Servant Leadership Equip and Focus Prosocially-Oriented Employees to Serve Others? Presenter: Chad Hartnell; Georgia State U. Presenter: G. James Lemoine; U. at Buffalo, The State U. of New York Presenter: Snehal Hora; U. at Buffalo, The State U. of New York Presenter: Daniel I. Watts; Georgia State U. How Comparative Thinking Influences Subordinates’ Feelings of Gratitude for Servant Leadership Presenter: Jiaqing Sun; U. of Illinois at Chicago Presenter: Robert C Liden; U. of Illinois at Chicago