Author(s)

Sina Eslamdoust¹, Sasan Mahmoudinazlou²

¹College of Business & Analytics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA.
²Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA.

Leadership is the skill and art of inspiring an organization’s followers to carry out their duties with passion to achieve the organization’s objectives and cultivate group development. Referring to the golden age and context of globalization, technological boost, and socioeconomic prosperity, contemporary organizations have experienced drastic changes over the past decades. These revisions have presented management with unexpected challenges that have forced them to pursue new routes in organizational leadership and management. Nowadays, leadership theorists have put more attention and emphasis on humility and servility in the leadership context. Servant leadership is a blossoming new research field and leadership paradigm that has been linked to ethics, humility, and morals. Servant leaders care about the satisfaction level of their followers more than their own desires. In this conceptual research, we will begin by summarizing and reviewing the literature on the origin of servant leadership. The literature on job satisfaction, empowerment, and performance will then be reviewed, and their relationship to servant leadership will be examined, with a focus on the moderating effect of leaders’ gender on these features.

Servant Leadership, Empowerment, Job Satisfaction, Performance, Gender

Eslamdoust, S. and Mahmoudinazlou, S. (2023) Servant Leadership, Followers Job Satisfaction, Empowerment and Performance: The Moderating Effect of Gender. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 11, 8-22. doi: 10.4236/jss.2023.113002.