International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences

search-icon

Leaders’ Willingness to Sacrifice: A phenomenology of Batik Entrepreneurs in Surakarta

Open access
This paper discussed a leader’s willingness to sacrifice. The purpose of this study was to develop a model of leader’s willingness to make sacrifices in accordance with the values of local wisdom. This paper was conducted to explore the meaning of a leader's willingness to sacrifice. It’s qualitative paper with a phenomenological approach to explore the leader's willingness to sacrifice among batik entrepreneurs in Surakarta. The batik industry was chosen because it is one of the unique products that will improve the nation's competitiveness. The results showed that there were nine factors underlying the willingness to sacrifice by a leader in the context of batik entrepreneurs in Surakarta, namely: confidence, dare to take risks, responsibility, respecting history (lara lapa), sincere, preserving culture, customer orientation, liability and spirit to rise.
Avolio, B.J., & Locke, E.E. (2002), "Contrasting Different Philosophies of Leader Motivation: Altruism versus Egoism", Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 13 pp.169-91.
Barney, J. (1991). Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage. Journal of Management, 17: 99-120.
Barney, J. (2001). Is The Resource-based View a Useful Perspective for Strategic Management Research? Yes. Academy of Management Executive, 26 : 41-56.
Bass, B.M. (1985), Leadership and Performance beyond Expectation, Free Press, New York, NY.
Bass, B.M. (1995), "Transformational Leadership Redux", Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 6 pp.463-78.
Bass, B.M. and Steidlmeier, P. (1999), “Ethics, Character and Authentic Transformational Leadership Behavior”, Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 181-217.
Burns, J.M. (1978), Leadership, Harper and Row, New York, NY.
Choi, Y. & Mai-Dalton, R.R. (1999), “The Model Of Followers’ Responses to Self-Sacrificial Leadership: An Empirical Test”, Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 10 No. 3, pp. 397-421.
Choi, Y., & Mai-Dalton, R.R. (1998), "On The Leadership Function of Self-Sacrifice", Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 9 pp.475-501.
Collin, F. (1997). Social Reality, Routledge Simultaneously Published, USA and Canada
Conger, J.A. & Kanungo, R.N. (1987), "Toward A Behavioral Theory of Charismatic Leadership in Organizational Settings", Academy of Management Review, Vol. 12 pp.637-47.
Conger, J.A. & Kanungo, R.N. (1998), Charismatic Leadership in Organizations, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.
Conger, J.A., Kanungo, R.N. & Menon, S.T. (2000), “Charismatic leadership and follower effects”, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. 21 No. 7, pp. 747-67.
Creswell, J.W. (2013). Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design: Choosing among Five Approaches. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
De Cremer, D. & van Knippenberg, D. (2002), "How Do Leaders Promote Cooperation? The Effects of Charisma and Procedural Fairness", Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 87 pp.858-66.
De Cremer, D. & van Knippenberg, D. (2004), “Leader Self-Sacrifice and Leadership Effectiveness: The Moderating Role of Leader Self-Confidence”, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Vol. 95, pp. 140-55.
De Cremer, D. (2002), "Charismatic Leadership and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas: A Matter of Transforming Motives?", Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Vol. 32 pp.997-1016.Dimyati, M. (2000), Penelitian Kualitatif; Paradigma, Epistimologi, Pendekatan, Metode dan Terapan, Progrma Pascasarjana Universitas Negeri Malang (UM), Malang.
Dvir, T. & Shamir, B. (2003), “Follower Developmental Characteristics As Predicting Transformational Leadership: A Longitudinal Field Study”, Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 14 No. 3, pp. 327-44.
Fatchan, A. (2013). Metode Penelitian Kualitatif 10 Langkah penelitian Kualitatif Pendekatan Konstruksi dan Fenomenologi. Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang.
Halverson, S.K., Holladay, C.L., Kazama, S.M. & Quinones, M.A. (2004), “Self-Sacrificial Behavior in Crisis Situations: The Competing Roles of Behavioral and Situational Factors”, Leadership Quaterly, Vol. 15 No. 2, pp. 263-75.
Neuman, W. L. (2006). Social Research Methods. United States of America : Pearson Education, Inc.
Rarick, C. & Sunaryo, S. (2013), Internasional Business : Cases and Exercises. www.amazom
In-Text Citation: (Sarjiyanto, Sarwoto, Suyono, & Awang, 2019)
To Cite this Article: Sarjiyanto, Sarwoto, Suyono, J., & Awang, N. (2019). Leaders’ Willingness to Sacrifice: A phenomenology of Batik Entrepreneurs in Surakarta. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 9(1), 1121–1133.