What is it about?
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between servant leadership and agency problems. Also, the paper determines whether gender plays a role in this relationship.
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Why is it important?
The study revealed three major findings. 1. The relationship between servant leadership behaviour and agency problems is near zero and not significant. 2. The servant leadership behaviour of female managers/supervisors brings the desired negative influence on the constructs of agency problems. 3. The servant leadership behaviour of males has a more positive and significant influence on agency problems than that of females.
Perspectives
Writing this article was a great pleasure as the co-author is a young academic who wishes to research between the disciplines of management and engineering. The findings of the research provide evidence that servant leadership is not a gender-neutral ethical construct, and practitioners should focus to develop or recruit managers who possess an ethic of care that could bring the desired negative outcome on the constructs of agency problems.
John Politis
Charles Darwin University
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This page is a summary of: Examination of the relationship between servant leadership and agency problems: gender matters, Leadership & Organization Development Journal, April 2018, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/lodj-01-2016-0020.
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