Business Question

Week 4: Authentic & Servant Leadership Theories

Assignment Instructions:

This week you have engaged in an in-depth exploration of Authentic Leadership and Servant Leadership. This week’s assignment asks you to evaluate these two approaches using examples to support your analysis. There are two sections to this assignment, which will be submitted together as one document:

Part 1: Authentic Leadership

Begin with a 2-full-page analysis of Walumba’s Authentic Leadership Model (Figure 9.2, Chapter 9) and explain how the arrows work. Specifically, how do positive psychological capacities and moral reasoning interact with critical life events? How do critical life events influence self-awareness, and so on? Explanations should be supported with hypothetical or real-life examples. After thinking through this model, are there any parts that are unclear? For example, do critical life events always lead to self-awareness or internalized moral perspective? If not, what else would explain why some people become authentic leaders through such life events and others do not? Does one’s previous ability to reason morally have more to do with leadership development than life events? Ground your analysis of this model with real-world or hypothetical examples that support your reasoning and conclusions.

Part 2: Servant Leadership

To complete this section, choose someone you think is a contemporary servant leader. Write a minimum of 2-full-page reaction paper of why you consider them to be an example of servant leadership. Use specific examples to support your arguments that the leadership characteristics or behaviors exhibited by this person fit most or all of Spear’s 10 SL characteristics or Liden’s 6 SL behaviors. You should also explain how the concept of servant leadership provides a useful way to understand this person’s leadership (i.e., What unique insights does this approach give us that other approaches do not?).