Hale and Fields (2007) state that humility is about placing the success of followers ahead of a leaders personal
gain. Button (2005) says that it is about lowering one’s status in relation to another and is related to one’s own
self – awareness. It is not about someone who lacks self-esteem but rather someone who recognizes their own
standing and is unassuming and humble (Bower, 1997). According to Patterson (2003), humility is the nonoverestimation
of one’s merits. She says that it is not to be equated with poor self-esteem. She further states that a
servant leader holds himself or herself neither too high nor too low and that a servant leader with humility has
good communication skills such as a willing listener.Servant leaders have no problem admitting that they can
benefit from the knowledge and expertise that is held by others (Dierendonck, 2011).