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Personal and Organizational Excellence through Servant Leadership: Learning to Serve, Serving to Lead, Leading to Transform
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Conceptually, servant leaders have a greater likelihood than transformational leaders to prioritize followers first, organizations second, and their own interests last.
“All in all, conceptually speaking, servant leaders have a greater likelihood than transformational leaders to set the following priorities in their leadership focus: followers first, organizations second, their own last (Sendjaya, 2015).”
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The physical and emotional demands on servant leaders are high due to their time spent with, and the emotional energy exhorted on employees.
“the physical and emotional demands on servant leaders is high due to their time spent with, and the emotional energy exhorted on employees (Sendjaya, 2015)”
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“Drawing on this model, as servant leadership has a greater focus on followers than other leadership approaches (van Dierendonck, 2011), the physical and emotional demands on servant leaders is high due to their time spent with, and the emotional energy exhorted on employees (Sendjaya, 2015).”
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- Authors
- Sendjaya, S.
- Affiliations
- Monash University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Sendjaya, Sen
- ORCID
- Sendjaya, Sen
- Venue
- Management for Professionals
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Published
- 2015
- ISSN
- 2192-8096 (ISSN-L)
- 2192-810X
- OpenAlex
- W4255492228
- Cited by
- 179
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 10.73
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Management for professionals (publishedVersion)
- Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) (submittedVersion)
- Swinburne figshare (Swinburne University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Leadership and Management in Organizations
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Keywords
- servant leadership, organizational excellence, personal excellence, workplace ethics, leadership framework, management practices
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