The Influence of Resilience on Servant Leadership

December 3, 2025

The Influence of Resilience on Servant Leadership

Nicole S. Parker | 2024

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to conduct research using a bounded case study method to enhance the understanding of the influence of resilience on servant leadership, specifically the contributing factors that inspire servant leaders to endure challenging experiences while remaining committed to their role as servants. Resilience matters, and the field of leadership development needs to understand its significance. Resilience can exert influence, encourage a vision, and stimulate a sustained effort to overcome challenges. The willingness and desire to overcome challenges begins through relationships that support healing, determination, consideration, concern, and understanding. Servant leadership is one of those relationships that has the potential to cultivate positivity and belief that a person’s life still has meaning and that they are still valued and important beyond the challenge. Resilience is recognized as a solution to reducing the impact of environmental pressures, improving coping, adapting, and recovering from adversity, decreasing stress, and alleviating the decline in job performance due to challenges. Servant leadership has also been acknowledged for relieving environmental stress. With resilience and servant leadership mitigating the impact of environmental hardships and stressors, resilience literature indicated a theoretical relationship between the two concepts. Servant leaders who exhibit behaviors within the framework of the five behavioral dimensions potentially exhibit resilient behaviors that may support the theoretical concept of the influence of resilience on servant leadership. Eight themes provided essential aspects that align with specific leadership attributes to support and develop follower resilience. A vision for future research encompassed a phenomenological study to understand the factors that indicate the potential facilitation process of resilience through servant leadership and a mixed-method study to measure and validate servant leadership as an adequate facilitation process for enhancing and building resilience.

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