Servant Leadership and Employees’ Well-Being

Bruce E. Winston ()
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Bruce E. Winston: Regent University

Chapter 5 in The Palgrave Handbook of Servant Leadership, 2023, pp 93-115 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presents servant leadership and employees’ well-being demonstrated as a workplace of passionate, peaceful, and productive people. Passionate includes a combination of person-organization fit in which employees’ workplace values align with the organization’s values and person-job fit in which the employee feels a sense of “calling” to engage in the assigned work and for the internal and external clients that the employee feels called to serve and a match between the employees’ knowledge, skills, and abilities with what the job requires. These two concepts relate to W. E. Deming’s comment that people want “joy” in their work. Peaceful includes the employees’ work-life balance, which reduces conflict between work and home. A peaceful workplace is one that is free of physical danger, emotional strife, and spiritual discrimination. The productive workplace is one in which employees are promoted to their level of competence and confidence, thus avoiding the Peter Principle. Employees receive education and training commensurate with the organizational leaders’ and the employees’ work goals. Rest, sabbaticals, and lateral transfers are used to help maintain high levels of readiness and motivation.

Keywords: Servant leadership; Human flourishing; Workplace well-being; Person-organization fit; Person-job fit; Calling; Work-life balance; Group identity; Group cohesion; Workplace safety; Spiritual well-being; Communication as dialogue; Job variety; Job motivation; Sabbaticals; Lateral transfers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-01323-2_6

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