Leadership is not a characteristic or trait with which only a few, certain people are endowed with at birth. If we consider leadership as a process it means that it is a transactional event that happens between leaders and their followers for the purpose of a common goal. Leadership is about directing a group of people toward the accomplishment of a task or the reaching of an endpoint through various ethical based means. Leaders and followers share objectives, meaning that they work together to achieve the shared objectives. For a leadership process to take place the leaders and followers have an ethical responsibility to attend to the needs and concerns of each other in attaining the goals. In this process it is to be noted that leaders are not better than the followers, nor are they above followers. On the contrary, leaders and followers are …show more content…
The continual interplay of limbic open loop among members of a group creates a kind of emotional soup, with everyone adding his or her own flavor to the mix. But the leader is one who adds the strongest seasoning. In a situation everyone watches the boss, people take their emotional cures from the top.
The notion of servant leadership is bit different; the servant leader loves people and helps them to achieve their objectives. The mission of a servant leader is therefore to identify the needs of others and try to satisfy these needs.
The Servant Leadership paradigm takes a different approach to the leader-follower relationship. Serving the needs of the follower becomes a leader’s priority and an end to itself rather than a means to achieve organizational objectives. In some American firms in which servant-leadership has been practiced; Human Resources practices are driven by the following principles;
1. Openness and fairness
2. Camaraderie and friendliness
3. Providing employees with