A Rational Perspective of Servant Leadership: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Servant Leader Motivation

A Rational Perspective of Servant Leadership: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Servant Leader Motivation

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Advocates of servant leadership maintain that altruism is the foundational ethic fueling the success of the servant leader.Thus, the foremost requirement of a servant leader is the possession of a concern for others above and beyond his or herself.Researchers have largely neglected the possibility that servant leaders may be, at least partially, motivated by self-interest.We challenge the current foundational ethic attributed with servant leadership and put forth Bird Baths a new ethical perspective.Reviewing four motivational states, from purely other-centered to purely self-centered, we introduce a conceptual model and argue that the proper ethic to ascribe with servant leadership is a dual motivational perspective of rational self-interest and agapao love.

A dual motivational perspective Place Mat allows the servant leader to avoid the negative consequences of the self-sacrificial, altruistic motivation while maintaining the positive, pro-social behaviors that improve organizational outcomes associated with servant leadership.