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Servant Leadership in Diverse Context
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Servant Leadership in Diverse Context
There are various types of
leadership in leadership and management, Servant leadership being one of them.
Servant leadership is among the most successful leadership styles and is
recognized for its efficiency in small and starting institutions. What is
servant leadership? Servant leadership is a leadership style that the leader
serves rather than the people they lead. Servant leaders expand services to
people and institutions (Greenleaf, 1970). Servant leadership style has the
tendency to promote foresight, ethical use of power, trust, listening, and the
people a leader leads feel empowered. Servant leadership is based on some regard to
the welfare of the people led and therefore borrows a lot from religious
perspectives on leadership and a strong adherence to the cultural beliefs and
norms of a people. The style was developed by Robert K. Greenleaf in 1970 to
describe leadership as intrinsic and needing morality in a leading role.
Islam
In most Arabic countries and
most precisely Iran and Pakistan, the largest religion is Islam. Islam has a
substantial following in the Asian continent, which the leading population of
Islam in Iran which respect to the total population. Islam, just like other
religions in the world, plays a significant role in equipping the leaders and
the people with the right moral endowment to lead. Islam is Abrahamic
monotheistic religion that teaches Muhammad as a messenger of God (Jayyusi et al., 2008). The religion has over 1.9 billion followers across
the world, making it the second-largest religion in the world based on
following. Islam religion started in Mecca, which is modern-day Saudi Arabia,
following the early life of Muhammad and has since then spread to the rest of
the world at a fast rate. Today Islam is recognized by everyone with its
subscription or not. Islam religion means submission to God and is guided by
five major pillars. Shahada; declaring one’s faith in God and believing in
Muhammad, Salat meaning to pray five times in a day, Zakat; giving to the
needy, swan; to fast during Ramadan and to visit Mecca at least once in a lifetime
if able.
Similarities
There are various similarities between Islam and the servant leadership style. The similarities are embedded on the pillars of Islam and precisely on Zakat, which means helping those in need and Shahada, having faith in God and believing in Muhammad. A servant leader is a helping leader and always serves to seek and identify areas of weakness that those he leads need to come up with the best results from them. The strong faith in God and the belief in Muhammad, as stated in hadeeth that “the leader of the people is the servant,” makes a leader lead the respect to the value of the people he leads (Gandolfi et al., 2017). The servant leadership concept is a prophetic one with an emphasis on the importance of being honest and dedicated to...
