International Journal of Servant-Leadership
Abstract
Although servant-leadership is not a fundamentally new idea, it has received more attention in the last few decades. While the concept has a number of proponents in the Western world, there is a paucity of research on how acceptable its tenets are for Asian audiences. Certain studies (Winston and Ryan 2008; Trompenaars and Voerman 2010) purport that servant-leadership is a leadership style that can be applied globally in various cultural contexts. However, on the face of it, this seems to contradict the central idea of culturally endorsed implicit leadership theories put forward by the venerable GLOBE study (House et al. 2004), which states that people from differing cultures expect different things from their leaders. This research aims to explore how the various aspects of servant-leadership behavior appear through the differing value systems of a Confucian Asian culture such as South Korea and a more individualistic culture such as the United States.
Recommended Citation
Lincoln, Scott
(2014)
"Servant-Leadership Priorities within American and South Korean Cultures,"
International Journal of Servant-Leadership: Vol. 10, Article 7.
DOI: 10.33972/ijsl.111
Available at:
https://repository.gonzaga.edu/ijsl/vol10/iss1/7
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