The Problem

Businesses and their leaders regularly face disruptive change, uncertain economic futures and the pressure of improving employee well-being. To not only withstand these crises but to rebound and even grow stronger, organizations must develop resilient leaders and a resilient workforce. Human resource development (HRD) professionals are responsible for resilience development within an organization and need to understand whether the development of servant leaders also increases leader and workforce resilience.

The Solution

Leaders with a high level of resilience are able to respond in positive ways to crises their organizations may encounter and, by exhibiting that resilience and those positive responses, are able to increase the level of resilience of those around them. Servant leaders focus their efforts on meeting the psychological needs and health of their followers and are therefore well placed to positively impact subordinate resilience. This article explores the ability of servant leadership to positively impact and grow the resilient capacity of those impacted by the servant leader. It proposes that HRD professionals can increase the resilience capabilities of an organization through the development of servant leaders who also exhibit resilient behaviors.

The Stakeholders

This article benefits organizations, leaders, employees, and HRD professionals as well as resilience and leadership scholars and practitioners.

中文翻译：

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弹性领导力：仆人领导者对其追随者的抵御力的影响

问题

企业及其领导人经常面临颠覆性变化，不确定的经济未来以及改善员工福祉的压力。为了不仅承受这些危机，而且要反弹甚至成长，组织必须培养有弹性的领导者和有弹性的员工队伍。人力资源开发（HRD）专业人员负责组织内部的抵御能力开发，并且需要了解仆人领导者的发展是否也能提高领导者和员工的抵御能力。

解决方案

具有较高应变能力的领导者能够以积极的方式应对组织可能遇到的危机，并且通过展现应变能力和这些积极的回应，能够提高周围人员的应变能力。仆人领导人将精力集中在满足追随者的心理需求和健康上，因此处于有利位置，可以积极影响下属的应变能力。本文探讨了仆人领导能力积极影响和增强受仆人领导影响的人们的适应能力的能力。它建议人力资源开发专业人员可以通过发展也表现出弹性行为的仆人领导者来提高组织的弹性能力。

利益相关者

本文使组织，领导者，员工和人力资源开发专业人员以及韧性和领导力学者和实践者受益。