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The Servant Organization: Levels of Organizational Health

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Greenleaf envisioned the institution as servant and not just the leader as servant. This chapter takes the servant leadership definition and model and applies them to organizations. The servant organization is presented as the implications of autocratic, paternalistic, or servant organizations are explored in relation to organizations. The OLA as well as levels of organizational health (toxic/poor, negative paternalistic, positive paternalistic and servant) is presented. Descriptions of each of these health levels are provided. Leaders will be able to assess the health of their own leadership and their organization through the use of the Organizational Leadership Assessment (OLA) and the OLA servant leadership model. The goal is to create healthy organizations that are able to sustain engaged and high performing workers.

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Laub, J. (2018). The Servant Organization: Levels of Organizational Health. In: Leveraging the Power of Servant Leadership. Palgrave Studies in Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77143-4_8

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