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Advances in Psychological Science ›› 2016, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (1): 143-157.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1042.2016.00143

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Servant leadership: Concept, measurements, influencing factors,  and consequences

CHEN Pei1; YANG Fu2; SHI Wei3   

  1. (1 School of Public Administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 611130, China)
    (2 School of Business Administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 611130, China)
    (3 School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China)
  • Received:2014-12-01 Online:2016-01-15 Published:2016-01-15
  • Contact: CHEN Pei, E-mail: chenpei@swufe.edu.cn

Abstract:

Servant leadership is a frontier topic in the field of leadership research. Servant leadership is one who is servant first and puts serving others as the number one priority. Based on the servant leadership literature both at home and abroad including its conception, structural features and measurements, comparisons with other types of leadership and empirical researches, the scientific status of servant leadership was reviewed. There are some problems and limitations in existing studies. Future researches should focus on the validity of servant leadership’s measurements, improvement of research levels and methods, identification for the nomological network of servant leadership, and exploration of its effectiveness.

Key words: servant leadership, servant first, leadership effectiveness, culture