Servant Leadership, Ethical Leadership, and Moral Intelligence

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Servant leadership
A servant leader can be defined as a leader who leads by serving others. He can also be described as a leader whose goal is to achieve the needs and interests of his followers. A servant leader that advocates for the development of his followers and ensures that his main goal is building the community. He can be identified to have various characteristics that help him in achieving his set goals. Therefore, we can identify them as the following;
Ethical leadership can be identified as the type of leadership where the leader tries to direct people with regards to the specified norms and beliefs. He can be identified as a leader that tries to find the balance between monetary gain and the developing the community. His main projects have a goal of leaving the surrounding community better off than before. Moral intelligence can be identified as the capacity to understand what’s right from wrong. This aspect is defined by an individual that has a strong ethical conviction. Therefore, one behaves in an honorable and right way.

This individual can be described to be an active listener; this is evident through his communication skills that utilize any feedback obtained from his followers. He ensures that his listeners have understood his vision through back and forth discussions. He also has great empathy; therefore his detects and understands the emotions that other people feel. This instills in him the power to identify the needs and wants of the community.

The organization will require evaluating itself and identifying what factors that reduce its productivity. We can identify that the organization will have to change it culture regarding it leaders. We can identify that most managers and employees do not identify with the democratic model of leadership. Therefore, they will have to change their relationships with their employees. A happy employee can be seen as a motivated employee. Therefore, this can only occur if the leader sees them as assets and not cogs in the industrial machine. This will only occur when the communication model accommodates the feedback of the employees. Therefore, the employer and employees are motivated if they feel that they have a stake in the company s operations.
We can identify these forms of leadership as suitable in most of the business today. This is because the human resource is still a key factor in business productivity. These forms of leadership have identified the fact that working together with the employees enhances the company’s productivity. Therefore, employees that have gathered together to achieve a certain goal will also require a conducive environment to operate. Through the leaders initiative of identifying his employees needs and wants he will motivate them and increase their productivity levels.
We can identify that the only this that gets in the way of applying these Leadership models are organizational cultures and employee behavior. Most individuals are afraid of change in the workplace. This is evident that change may make some of their responsibilities redundant therefore most leaders and employees will be against any change. Therefore, implementation of this leadership models can be seen to be too radical for some organizations. Hence, acceptance and application of these models will face a very difficult time in the real world application. We can identify that the implementation of technology in the workspace took a long time. It also rendered most computer illiterate employees jobless. Hence, change has always been meeting with much suspicion.

References
Miles Anthony Smith(2012) Why Leadership Sucks: Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership, Kompelling Publishing,
Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (2002)Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness, Paulist Press,
Robert Lussier, Christopher Achua (2015)Leadership: Theory, Application, & Skill Development, Cengage Learning,

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