TITLE:
Servant Leadership, Followers Job Satisfaction, Empowerment and Performance: The Moderating Effect of Gender
AUTHORS:
Sina Eslamdoust, Sasan Mahmoudinazlou
KEYWORDS:
Servant Leadership, Empowerment, Job Satisfaction, Performance, Gender
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.3,
March
9,
2023
ABSTRACT: Leadership is the skill and art of inspiring
an organization’s followers to carry out their duties with passion to achieve
the organization’s objectives and cultivate group development. Referring to the
golden age and context of globalization, technological boost, and socioeconomic
prosperity, contemporary organizations have experienced drastic changes over
the past decades. These revisions have presented management with unexpected
challenges that have forced them to pursue new routes in organizational
leadership and management. Nowadays, leadership theorists have put more
attention and emphasis on humility and servility in the leadership context.
Servant leadership is a blossoming new research field and leadership paradigm
that has been linked to ethics, humility, and morals. Servant leaders care
about the satisfaction level of their followers more than their own desires. In
this conceptual research, we will begin by summarizing and reviewing the
literature on the origin of servant leadership. The literature on job
satisfaction, empowerment, and performance will then be reviewed, and their
relationship to servant leadership will be examined, with a focus on the
moderating effect of leaders’ gender on these features.