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Year 2017, Volume: 3 Issue: 9, 859 - 869, 27.12.2017
https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.366859

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References

  • Frankl, V. E. (1984). Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington : Washington Square Press Greenleaf, R.K. (1991). The servant as leader. Indianapolis, IN: The Robert K. Greenleaf Center. [Originally published in 1970, by Robert K. Greenleaf]. Harwiki, W. (2016). The Impact of Servant Leadership on Organization Culture, Organizational Commitment, Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) and Employee Performance in Women Cooperatives. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 219, 283-290. Hutapea, B., & Dewi, F. I. R. (2012). Peran Kebermaknaan Hidup dan Kepemimpinan Melayani Terhadap Kepuasan Hidup Sukarelawan Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat. Jurnal Insan, 14(3), 159–170. Kusmanto, B., Widodo, S., A. (2016) Pola Kepemimpinan Ki Hadjar Dewantara. Jurnal Managemen Pendidikan. Vol. 11, 2 : 18-29 Melchar, D. E., & Bosco, S. M. (2010). Achieving high organization performance through servant leadership. Rushing, C. dan Powell, L. (2015) Family Dynamics of the Stay-at-Home Father and Working Mother Relationship. American Journal of Men’s Health, 9 (5) 410-420. Smith, C. (2005). Servant Leadership: The Leadership Theory of Robert K. Greenleaf. The Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. Smith, J.A. (2009). Psikologi Kualitatif: Panduan Praktis Metode Riset. Jakarta : Pustaka Pelajar Sokoll, S. (2014). Servant leadership and employee commitment to a supervisor. Virginia Beach, VA 23464| 757.352. 4550 Ijls@ Regent. Edu| ISSN 1554-3145, 8(2), 88. Rachmawati, A. W., & Lantu, D. C. (2014). Servant Leadership Theory Development & Measurement. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 115, 387–393. Yukl, G. A. (2010). Leadership in organizations (7th ed). Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall.

THE MEANING OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP: A QUALITATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY

Year 2017, Volume: 3 Issue: 9, 859 - 869, 27.12.2017
https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.366859

Abstract

Introduction: In this day and age, finding the servant leadership is really hard,
most organization
s focus on bigger profits and corporate business expansion. A serving
leadership emphasizing more on members’ interests face
s 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 aim
s 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 consist
s 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 ha
s 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 take
s 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 arise
s 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.

References

  • Frankl, V. E. (1984). Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington : Washington Square Press Greenleaf, R.K. (1991). The servant as leader. Indianapolis, IN: The Robert K. Greenleaf Center. [Originally published in 1970, by Robert K. Greenleaf]. Harwiki, W. (2016). The Impact of Servant Leadership on Organization Culture, Organizational Commitment, Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) and Employee Performance in Women Cooperatives. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 219, 283-290. Hutapea, B., & Dewi, F. I. R. (2012). Peran Kebermaknaan Hidup dan Kepemimpinan Melayani Terhadap Kepuasan Hidup Sukarelawan Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat. Jurnal Insan, 14(3), 159–170. Kusmanto, B., Widodo, S., A. (2016) Pola Kepemimpinan Ki Hadjar Dewantara. Jurnal Managemen Pendidikan. Vol. 11, 2 : 18-29 Melchar, D. E., & Bosco, S. M. (2010). Achieving high organization performance through servant leadership. Rushing, C. dan Powell, L. (2015) Family Dynamics of the Stay-at-Home Father and Working Mother Relationship. American Journal of Men’s Health, 9 (5) 410-420. Smith, C. (2005). Servant Leadership: The Leadership Theory of Robert K. Greenleaf. The Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. Smith, J.A. (2009). Psikologi Kualitatif: Panduan Praktis Metode Riset. Jakarta : Pustaka Pelajar Sokoll, S. (2014). Servant leadership and employee commitment to a supervisor. Virginia Beach, VA 23464| 757.352. 4550 Ijls@ Regent. Edu| ISSN 1554-3145, 8(2), 88. Rachmawati, A. W., & Lantu, D. C. (2014). Servant Leadership Theory Development & Measurement. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 115, 387–393. Yukl, G. A. (2010). Leadership in organizations (7th ed). Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall.
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Putra Wiramuda

Publication Date December 27, 2017
Submission Date November 1, 2017
Published in Issue Year 2017Volume: 3 Issue: 9

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EndNote Wiramuda P (December 1, 2017) THE MEANING OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP: A QUALITATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY. IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences 3 9 859–869.

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