Emphasis will be given on what is servant leadership, its origins in the biblical narrative, the impact it has on a business or an organization, the complementarity of service and leadership and its application cross culturally. The course will provide ways for the student to adopt this as a norm for his/her life.
The demand for this style of leadership has increased as we move further away from the “top down” leadership of the industrial age era and towards a more holistic approach for all stakeholders in the business environment, more sensitive and looking for relationships in the marketplace. Servant leadership workshops, seminars, conferences have become very popular especially over the last two decades and the business world shows great interest in this area. It is therefore pivotal for the student to become not just academically familiar with being a servant leader, but he/she is called to simply follow the model of the Lord Jesus Christ and to develop the appropriate lifestyle.
In the midst of a leadership vacuum and increasing instances of businesses, governments, and non profits faltering, there is a need for time tested models of visionary and compelling leadership ingrained in the lives of followers of Jesus Christ. Servant leadership is this type of model.
Matt 20:28, Mk 10:45, Jn 13:1-17 are some of the passages that lead into the need for this course and the student will look at them and other passages and their application in today's marketplace venue.
The model of the serving Christ is the high standard for the MU student to imitate and adopt as a lifestyle.
Learning to be a servant leader will take each student through paths in their own context as they face the realities and challenges of their environments.
There will be opportunities for the students to exchange and share their experiences so that others will be able to see how servant leadership principles are applied cross culturally.
The optimum for each student will be to become an authentic servant leader as a powerful witness to their marketplace seeing.
Students will be encouraged to engage in field experiences so that they can learn servant leadership as a life process while in the meantime they will reflect on the impact self transformation brings to them and to others around them.
