AN EXPLORATION ON THE APPLICATION MODEL OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL ORGANIZATIONS

• Main Authors: HUANG DENG-MU, 黃登木
• Other Authors: LIN SHIH-LING
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15584148770011099275

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 教育領導與發展研究所 === 92 === From the discussions by quantum theorists or organization theorists recently, effective organizations should highly value how to inspire their members’ creative potential and dedication, as well as build cooperative partnership between the leaders and the members. Organizations should be in the dynamic recycle of learning and reflection, bestow commitment to the members, and help them acquire the meaning and significance of work and life. These new viewpoints on the world all imply that it is time for human beings to develop new leadership. It is a brilliant flag of human nature that servant leadership insists going back to the nature of leadership and meeting the needs for human nature like love, care, cooperation, trust, and meaning, and thus it is becoming one of the newly concerned leadership theories. It is usually applied in enterprises, governments, non-profit organizations, colleges, and communities, and it often brings a success to the leaders. This study aims to explore the contents of servant leadership, to analyze the application, and to develop basic models and strategies when it is applied in school organizations. Because of adopting a theory-analytical approach, the author conducts amounts of careful literature reviews in this study. As to the framework of this study, first the author analyzes the origin and contents of servant leadership, and then constructs its conceptions framework. Second, the author discusses some specific leadership approaches, and finds out the relative position in them for servant leadership. Third, inducing the affects of social changes and educational reformations, as well as the constructional problems in schools in Taiwan, the author builds a contextual system which principals have to face. Then, comparing the contextual system and the conceptions framework of servant leadership, the author finds out that there is high application for applying servant leadership in school organizations. Finally, the author develops a basic model, strategies and plans for the application. According to the literature reviews and discussions above, the author sums up five conclusions and they are as following: 1. Servant leadership strongly contends its primary intention is to “serve first, not lead first.” It places an emphasis on spirit and views leadership as an inside-out process of influence. This is the main difference from other leadership theories. 2. After the author discusses the relations between servant leadership and quantum theory approach, spiritual-based approach, and post-modernism approach, he acquires a finding that there are common-measurements on the issue. That is to say, servant leadership involves the characteristics of the three approaches. 3. In one hand, the main purpose of servant leadership is to help followers grow and succeed. In other hand, schools’ core mission is to serve and help students to be healthier, more automatic and to develop their potential. Thus, the purposes of school education correspond to the concepts of servant leadership. Servant leadership can meet principals’ needs for managing schools, so there is application for servant leadership in school organizations. 4. Basing on the concepts of servant leadership and the contextual system of schools, the author constructs a basic model of applying servant leadership in schools. The model includes four dimensions: 1) the leader’s self-training, 2) the values guidance-vision and following, 3) the transformation of bureaucratic system and professional system, 4) the culture of organizations. 5. The four dimensions of the model are also strategies for applying servant leadership in schools. In practice, there are many important plans under the strategies, such as administration teams building, teachers’ community building, and dialogue method. For the development of educational leadership in Taiwan, the author believes that servant leadership has lots of values on reference both for educational research and for practice.