Recommendations for Future Research
Replication of and possible enlargement of the sample of this study in other regions
would be highly desirable. A person could study the correlation of the servant-leader
behavior of the pastor and its effect on the organizational commitment of the staff in
other states. To help all levels of church staff adopt a servant leadership behavior,
leadership could promote training in servant leadership principles. The pastor, ministerialstaff, and administrative associates could learn the behavior of servant leadership and teach paid and volunteer staff to lead as servants.
In this study, ministerial staff and administrative assistants rated individual pastors.
Further research could rate the pastors as in this study, but individualize the ministerial staff and administrative assistants. Further research could also employ interviews with ministerial staff and administrative assistants to determine why they answered the questions as they did.
In this study, staff positions, ministerial staff, and administrative assistants were the demographic control variables. Future studies might consider measuring how servant
leadership of the pastor might affect other variables such as age, gender, tenure and
education.