Servant Leadership and Servant Leaders’ Attributes

The concept and theory of Servant leadership is becoming more popular and important among other leadership styles in the current era of leadership and management. Although it is an alluring and interesting concept it is not yet clearly defined and it is not completely elaborated and supported by empirical research. In this article servant leadership’s literature, its attributes and the differences between servant leadership and transformational leadership will be discussed. And in the end based on the many attributes suggested by many studies and researchers, we will develop a framework for categorizing the functional and accompanying attributes of servant leaders. After categorizing the attributes two models will be suggested for researchers to work on and for practitioners to apply in their organizations.