Future Focus Required
One major tenet of servant leadership pro-posed by Greenleaf (1991) was that followers
of servant leaders would be expected to be-come “healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous
and more likely to become servants themselves”
(Barbuto & Wheeler 2006, p. 321). This sug-gests that future research could take a more
follower-centric approach in looking at the
well-being of followers of servant leaders and
the ways in which their well-being affects the
ability of the leader and followers to perform.
As with LMX, the measurement of servant lead-ership is problematic. Already many different
measures of servant leadership have been pro-posed with scales and items varying based on
problems with its definition. Future research
needs to examine how the personal values of
servant leaders differ from those of other lead-ership styles, such as transformational (Russell
& Stone 2002).