BLUF: Servant Leadership + Ethical Leadership = Motivation + Service to Others

(Study Title) Integrating Servant Leadership and Ethical Leadership

This study includes a foundational definition of ethical leadership and ethical leaders. Per the study, they are:

• Ethical Leadership: Demonstrating normative (acceptable) conduct and encouraging followers to do the same.

• Ethical Leaders are honest, trustworthy, fair, and care about others at work and home.

The study defines a conceptual model of ethical leadership that combines a leader’s influences and characteristics leading to ethical leadership with a series of outcomes that influence a leader’s ability to maintain an acceptable level of morality.

It is clear that some of the characteristics have negatively impacts, and some of them have a positive impact on the leader’s morality. The individual characteristics are:

• Agreeableness

• Neuroticism (thin-skinned)

• Machiavellianism (manipulate others to achieve your goals)

• Moral reasoning

• Locus of Control (control of events around you)

With the correct mix of characteristics, a leader can influence followers articulate the importance of acceptable standards and hold them accountable to maintain them.

A conceptual model of Servant Leadership is offered that takes a set of leadership characteristics that lead to trust and high quality of a leader resulting in higher organizational performance. The inclusion of these will improve the leaders ability to serve others with a successful organization:

• Empower and develop followers

• Humility

• Authentic

• Interpersonal acceptance

• Provide clear directions

• Stewardship

Successful servant leadership provides a people-centered style, a great work environment, well-defined goals, and a protective work environment.

Adding these two concepts together resulted in an integrated servant and ethical leadership model. This model still needs an application and effectiveness study. However, the research indicates that leaders will positively influence followers with a high-quality level of trust and a strong ethical organization.

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The results of this study are an interesting idea that cannot be distilled into a few simple instructions for a leader to use as a magic bullet. However, the notion that servant leadership can result in an ethical organization is not new and found in many of the studies on that relatively new leadership style. As a result of the study, a leader can focus on the following and should consider these when looking for self-improvement.

• Empower your team to solve the problem the best way they know how. (let them make one-time mistakes as a learning opportunity)

• Provide clear and desired outcomes that are measurable and attainable.

• Be a good steward to others. Teams always win over individuals.

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Citation: Reddy, A. V., & Kamesh, A. V. S. (2016). Integrating servant leadership and ethical leadership. Ethical Leadership: Indian and European Spiritual Approaches, 107-124.

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