The Relationship between Personality Type and the Servant Leadership Characteristic of Empowerment

There is an increasing interest in spirituality in all facets of life including the workplace. Spirituality and its association with workplace leadership is a compelling issue for management professionals. Leaders who practice principles of servant leadership address spiritual development in themselves and others. Lewis, Spears, and Lafferty (2008) emphasized that “organizations are the way they are because of the personalities of the leaders” (p. 15). The principal purpose of the subject research was exploration of the intersection between Jungian analytical psychology formulated in personality type theory and Greenleaf's servant leadership philosophy; specifically the behavioral characteristic of empowerment. Personality preference was represented by four predictor variables per the four dimensions of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®). Servant leadership empowerment was measured by a subscale of the Servant Leadership Profile - Revised©. Four demographic control variables were used in the study. Hypothesized relationships were tested using multiple hierarchical regression on data collected from a sample of 107 participants. After assuring that the transformed data met the analytical requirements, a regression model was constructed to assess the hypothesized relationships between servant leadership empowerment