EXPLORING THE INFLUENCE OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP ON TEAM COMMITMENT IN THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY
Abstract
A popular notion, servant leadership is a recent development in the study of organizational leadership. Servant leadership is becoming more and more significant in all sectors of the global economy. Robert K. Greenleaf came up with the term "servant leadership," which suggests serving and assisting subordinates rather than exercising traditional leadership. In addition to examining whether servant leadership exists in the Indian IT sector, this study aims to ascertain the degree to which employee job-related attitudes—such as job satisfaction, team commitment, and team effectiveness—are linked to the perception of servant leadership in South Indian IT sectors within a psychological environment known as trust in leaders. Due of its anecdotal nature, servant leadership lacks a solid theoretical foundation and empirical support. The literature highlights the past background of servant leadership their key features and contrast between followed leadership styles and servant leadership in modern day business era. This study attempts to find the literature review for relationship between servant leadership, trust and job-related attitudes.
Keyword : IT industry, leadership, servant leadership, team commitment, trust.
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