Servant and Positive Leadership Styles: A Bibliometric Analysis and Literature Review

In the field of management and psychology, recent years have seen increased interest in the topic of leadership profiles. This research contains a bibliometric analysis followed by a literature review with a narrative approach on servant and positive leadership, using rstudio software with the bibliometrix function package, aiming to respond better to the volume of data. The bibliometrics resulted in identifying forms of grouping, the first by thematic mapping and the second by bibliographic coupling joined by keywords. The result provides an interpretative view of the data and recognises that the two leadership profiles are at different stages, highlighting the development of the servant leadership profile, which has a broad list of scale items and measuring factors, while positive leadership does not yet have well-delimited and developed constructs. As an initial contribution, gaps in the literature are indicated regarding the most appropriate behaviour for leaders at times of crisis, the possibility of studying the transversal nature of the dimensions of servant and positive leadership, and finally, the need to extend the scope of knowledge of the positive leader profile.