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Servant Leadership Research Paper

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Is Servant Leadership Evident in Chinese Culture? Servant leader is often associated with Christianity and the Bible, one could argue it is compatible with most religions and philosophies and that it transcends cultures. Characteristics of servant leadership have been found to be planted in traditional Chinese culture. Confucianism for example, demonstrates attention to the needs of followers and helps them by behaving morally right while expressing concern and care. Daoism emphasizes serving the broader society, encouraging humbleness and empowering others. Eagerness to assist others has moral models throughout Chinese history. In this essay we will explore the Chinese culture and religious viewpoints and examine how the principles of servant …show more content…

Confucian virtues also suggest individuals to have a sensitivity to other people, keeping commitments and justice. Moreover, a confucian servant leadership style would consist of benefiting others, true selfhood, perfect virtue, goodness, compassion, charity, kindness, altruism, love, and morality (Yingyang, 2014). Lastly, “guanxi” leadership includes recognition of employees, justice, employee’s positive attributes, quality of leader’s attributes and quality of leader-employee relationship outside of work, all which happen to overlap the idea of servant …show more content…

In the early 80’s the government launched a type of spiritual socialist civilization construction program directed at instilling good manners, tidiness, orderliness, cultural participation, and clean and straight thinking through idealogical exhortation, thought reform, and re-education. This program still remains prominent and used as a criterion in the performance reports of Chinese state civil servants (Yingyang, 2014). This promotion of the socialist spiritual-civilization construction program, is very similar to Greenleaf’s servant

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