Servant Leadership Framework For Making Difficult Business Decisions A
Servant Leadership Framework For Making Difficult Business Decisions A
Servant Leadership Framework For Making Difficult Business Decisions A
Neha
Over the course of my professional career with several multi-national companies, I have
vision statements with higher cultural values in the marketplace. These cultural statements help
to promote organization as a better place to work safely, both as a client and as an employee. It
has been observed over and over again that although the companies promote themselves carrying
strong leadership values, but when it comes to making business decisions, these leadership
values get undermined or compromised. Therefore, my research paper will focus on developing a
framework/ principles/ strategy that could support Servant Leadership values while making
Since leaders are stewards of the organization, so they must practice the characteristic of
servant leadership for the well-being of the organization. The personal and professional interest
is to learn more about the factors that could possibly help in equipping myself with relevant tools
and techniques, that could be practiced while making critical business decisions and both the
elements of servant leadership, such as “lead” and “serve” can equally be considered.
So, this scholarly research paper will focus on developing the framework that will help
the existing or aspiring servant leaders to learn various principles and strategies that can be
Procedure
This literature review first identified scholarly research focused on developing a framework/
principles/ strategy, that can solve the issue of undermining servant leadership values for while
making difficult business decisions, through electronic databases available at the author’s
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university library. Databases included in this review were: Academic Search Ultimate, Google
Scholar, JSTOR, DOAJ and the university’s Library One Search. The following key subject
words were used to search the databases with Boolean “AND” to combine the search terms:
AND servant leadership, employee termination AND servant leadership values, employee under
performance AND servant leadership, limitations of servant leadership, servant v leadership and
results ranged from 2400 to 3954 search results. While the majority of articles were irrelevant, 5
The 5 articles identified were manually screened for relevance and attainability and were
either kept or eliminated based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The reviewed articles
were required to meet the following criteria: 1) be published between 2009-2015, 2) be peer-
reviewed, 3) be written in the English language, 4) be accessible through the university library,
and 5) discuss “Servant Leadership Framework for Making Difficult Business Decisions” to as a
central theme. Conversely, articles were eliminated based on the following exclusion criteria: 1)
published earlier than 2009, 2) written in a non-English language, and 3) not an empirical study.
Of the 284 articles identified, 5 articles met the inclusion criteria and were used in the review.
Table 1.
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