IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences

Abstract

Introduction: In this day and age, finding the servant leadership is really hard,
most organizations focus on bigger profits and corporate business expansion. A serving
leadership emphasizing more on members’ interests faces various challenges because any profits gained is used for the members’ welfare. The model of servant leadership can be adopted by non-profit organization in the
field of human welfare, such as education field.

Research Purpose:
This research aims are: (1) to explore the individual experience of people doing servant leadership
in daily organizational life; (2) to find meaning in individual experience
doing servant leadership in daily organizational life.

Research Design: The
research type is a qualitative research with interpretative phenomenological
analysis method. Interpretative phenomenological analysis consists of two steps, first, the subject will
interpret their world; second, the researcher
tries to define
the subject interpretation process of their world. Through
phenomenology, researcher tries to explore the meaning of life of some individuals to
create a universal meaning.

Research Question:
This research has two questions, those are: (1) how is the experience of someone doing
servant leadership? (2) What is the meaning of someone doing servant
leadership?

Sample: The sampling
technique is purposive sampling. This research takes the subject from those who use the servant leadership model in their
organization. Data gathering was done through
a semi-structural interview, so the dialogue between the researcher
and the
subject in the exploration
of the
subject experience in doing servant leadership up to
finding the
meaning of said experience can occur.

Result: According to
data analysis of someone doing the servant leadership, some group of themes can
be seen, those are: (1) it arises from their
concern about problems around them, (2) it pushes the subject to start collecting resources to start a movement for change,
(3) the movement for change is vital in welfare improvement of the members, (4)
organizational activities are not for profits but sincerely for helping
members. (5) Servant leadership is shown by various attributes and traits to
serve members. Conclusively, servant leadership means: (1) a leadership born
from the concern of wanting to help members’ issues. (2) A leader needs to directly serve members so a trust can grow, and such trust can
inspire members to help and grow with each other’s. (3) The most important
things to understand from servant leadership is assuming other members as equal members of family, working honest, being
sincere, being wholehearted, and being committed to keep helping each other.