Rate My Professor Sen Sendjaya

Sen Sendjaya is Professor of Leadership and Management and Head of the Department of Management & Organisations at the School of Management, RMIT University, a role he assumed in 2024. Prior to RMIT, he held various leadership positions at Swinburne University and Monash University, where he spearheaded the NOBLE research group. This dynamic initiative advances knowledge and practice on how individuals and teams interact, influence, and innovate in contemporary organisations. His research spans leadership and organisational behaviour, aligning with UN Sustainable Development Goals including good health and well-being, quality education, and decent work and economic growth.

A leading scholar on servant leadership, Sendjaya created the Servant Leadership Behaviour Scale (SLBS), a psychometric measure utilised in organisations for leadership selection, assessment, and training. With over 12,600 citations, his work appears in top journals such as The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Vocational Behaviour, and Journal of Business Ethics, complemented by five authored or edited books. Key publications include "Servant leadership: A systematic review and call for future research" (Eva et al., 2019; 3,398 citations), "Servant Leadership: Its Origin, Development, and Application in Organizations" (Sendjaya & Sarros, 2002; 1,888 citations), "Defining and measuring servant leadership behavior in organizations" (Sendjaya, Sarros, & Santora, 2008; 1,853 citations), "How servant leadership influences organizational citizenship behavior: The roles of LMX, empowerment, and proactive personality" (Newman et al., 2017; 1,003 citations), and "Does servant leadership foster creativity and innovation? A multi-level mediation study of identification and prototypicality" (Yoshida et al., 2014; 755 citations). Sendjaya engages senior leaders from government, transportation, finance, health, higher education, not-for-profit, and church sectors through executive education and corporate workshops in Australia and overseas, generating deep and lasting organisational impacts.