Servant Leadership and Employee Burnout: The Vital Role of Helping Subordinates Grow and Succeed

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5703164
• Publication Date: 2021-11-15
• Authors: April G. Martin; Mark T. Green; Esther S. Gergen; Jared Montoya; Carol Z. Rownd
• Keywords: Servant Leadership, Burnout, Leadership, Helping Subordinates Grow and Succeed; 0502 economics and business; 05 social sciences

Employee burnout has been studied for over four decades. This considerable body of literature indicates that that there are factors that effect employee burnout. Previous studies have found that within the domain of leadership studies, maintaining relationship quality between leader and subordinates is a predictor of employee burnout. Within Servant Leadership the relational aspect of Helping Subordinates Grow and Succeed is the most important component of Servant Leadership related to employee burnout in healthcare organizations in this study.