157 BUITEMS Quality & Excellence in Education J. App. Em. Sc Vol 4, Issue 2, December 2013 Development of Conceptual Link between Servant Leadership & Employee Subjective Well-being Raheela Maula-Bakhsh and Abdul Raziq Department of Management Sciences, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences Quetta ABSTRACT In recent years, Subjective Well-Being (SWB) of employees has turned out to be a major concern for majority of organizations. Similarly, the concern for follower-centric leadership has also been emerged. Servant leadership is a new concept that has gained increased attention of the scholars. As, the concept of servant leadership is based on promoting the employees wellbeing and in provision of services to employees, thus, it is expected that certain characteristics of servant leadership might impact SWB constructively. The objective of this study is to develop a conceptual link between servant leadership and employee subjective well-being. The literature review from past 1969-2014 has been done and conceptual framework has been presented. Furthermore, some propositions have also been postulated. The study indicate that empirical researches can be conducted further in future to validate these propositions. Key Words: Servant Leadership, Subjective well-being, Emotional Healing, Altruism, Growth of people, Empowerment, Conceptualization. Corresponding author’s email: raziq@buitms.edu.pk INTRODUCTION Servant leadership is an emerging phenomenon in the field of leadership. Maxwell (2011) defined it as servant hood, and further stated that if someone wants to lead by serving, the servant leadership is the way of life. He explained that the crux of servant leadership is in recognizing value of people and providing value to their lives. Thus, he theorized that one has to serve the other with whom he/she wants to drive value for himself. According to Laub (1999) servant leadership is an understanding and practice of leadership. Moreover, he stated that the good of others whom are being controlled, has more importance than self-interest of the leader. Parolini, (2004) narrated that, servant leader is the one who has certain character attributes that includes positive orientation for people. Furthermore, it is the ability of servant leader that he gives priority in ranked order. That is first to people then to the systems and contexts and finally to the goals. Thus, their actions are aimed at financial and productivity related output as well as organizational effectiveness. Such attributes differentiate servant leadership from other forms of leadership (Russell, 2002). Sims (2005) defined servant leadership as the process of honoring personal self- respect and valuing all whom are directed. Accordingly, he stated that the purpose is to arouse as much as possible their own distinctive innovative power. It has been observed in research studies that; at present every individual is in the quest of job where the leadership can provide them purposeful and healthy life (Clark, 1997; Arnetz, 1999; Griffin et al., 2001). Furthermore, they stated that, it can be achieved through providing employees with opportunity to work independently. They included that likewise, it can be achieved through opportunities for personal growth, and to express their feelings and emotions freely. Also, it is argued that the goal can be achieved by providing an ethical environment, clear vision, direction, and where the leadership solves the problems of employees. Macik-Frey et al. (2009) described that employee well-being and rapid innovations are becoming the major concerns. So, according to them importance of highly ethical and caring leadership has much more