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9780230238268

Servant Leadership Developments in Theory and Research

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    9780230238268

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    0230238262

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-11-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Servant-leadership may be the answer to the current demand for a more ethical, people-centred leadership where humility, servitude and contribution are key elements. The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of current thinking and empirical research of the determinants, underlying processes and consequences of servant leadership.

Author Biography

Dirk van Dierendonck is Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands. His expertise is servant leadership with specific attention to its influence on the flourishing of people within organizations. Kathleen Patterson is Associate Professor at Regent University's School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship, USA, She is noted as an expert on servant leadership, coordinates annual Servant Leadership Research Roundtables, and is the editor of the Journal of Virtues in Leadership.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tablesp. ix
Forewordp. x
Acknowledgementsp. xii
Notes on the Contributorsp. xiii
List of Abbreviationsp. xviii
Positioning Servant Leadership
Servant Leadership: An Introductionp. 3
Servant leadership: history and backgroundp. 4
Examples of servant leadershipp. 5
Unique elements in servant leadershipp. 7
This bookp. 8
Final wordsp. 10
Servant Leadership and Robert K. Greenleaf's Legacyp. 11
Robert K. Greenleafp. 12
The concept of servant as leaderp. 12
What is servant leadership?p. 13
How Robert Greenleaf began his workp. 14
Characteristics of the servant-leaderp. 15
Servant leadership in practicep. 20
A growing movementp. 23
Opportunities and Tensions of Servant Leadershipp. 25
Contextp. 26
Different emphases of servant leadershipp. 28
Welcoming opportunities, addressing tensionsp. 37
Demystifying Servant Leadershipp. 39
The multidimensional nature of servant leadershipp. 40
The boundary conditions of servant leadershipp. 43
Conclusionp. 51
Becoming the Servant-Leader
A Modest History of the Concept of Service as Leadership in Four Religious Traditionsp. 55
The current turn to spirituality and values-based leadershipp. 55
Greenleaf's counter-spirituality of servicep. 57
Max Weber's theory of religious leadership, and the concept of service and leadership in four religious traditionsp. 59
The servant-leader as prophetp. 66
Servant Leadership and Lovep. 67
The basis of lovep. 67
Leadership and lovep. 68
Love and the case for virtuep. 69
Servant leadership from a love perspectivep. 72
Conclusionp. 76
Consciousness, Forgiveness and Gratitude: The Interior of the Servant-Leaderp. 77
Choosing the right path in lifep. 78
Choosing our manner of thinkingp. 79
Choosing our characterp. 82
Choosing to become a servant-leaderp. 84
Below-the-line thinkingp. 84
Above-the-line thinkingp. 86
The nucleus of servant leadershipp. 88
Motivation to Serve: Understanding the Heart of the Servant-Leader and Servant Leadership Behavioursp. 90
Individual differences in leadership researchp. 92
Motivation-to-serve: a new individual difference constructp. 93
Antecedents of motivation-to-servep. 95
Motivation-to-serve: a proximal antecedent of servant leadershipp. 98
The empowering climate as a situational moderatorp. 98
Integrative propositionsp. 99
Conclusionp. 100
Building A Servant Leadership Culture
The Servant Organizationp. 105
Expanding Greenleaf's concept of 'Institution as servant'p. 105
Definitions of 'servant leadership' and 'servant organization model'p. 106
Development of the Organizational Leadership Assessmentp. 107
Adding the A-P-S Mindset Modelp. 109
Organizational Leadership Assessment research and the servant organization: a summaryp. 110
Organizational Leadership Assessment servant organization model and other models on organizational culture: a comparisonp. 114
Conclusionp. 117
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Servant Leadershipp. 118
Cultural perspectives on servant leadershipp. 119
Future directions for the study of servant leadership within the global contextp. 128
Servant leadership and cross-cultural validityp. 128
Servant Leadership Learning Communities“: Incubators for Great Places to Workp. 130
How the idea of a Servant Leadership Learning Community“ came into beingp. 130
The servant leadership legacy at TDIndustriesp. 132
The spirit of LUV at Southwest Airlinesp. 135
Building sustainable servant-led organizationsp. 142
SLLC“s connect SL organizations across the globep. 142
Servant-Leaders' Influence on Followers
Servant Leadership and Follower Need Satisfaction: Where Do We Go From Here?p. 147
Servant leadership and follower needsp. 148
A theoretical model linking servant leadership and follower need satisfactionp. 149
Future directions for servant leadership researchp. 152
Conclusionp. 154
Enhancing Innovation and Creativity through Servant Leadershipp. 155
What is creativity?p. 156
Servant leadership and creativityp. 157
A business casep. 160
Mediating processesp. 161
Conclusionp. 164
Studying Servant Leadership
Servant Leadership Theory: Development of the Servant Leadership Assessment Instrumentp. 169
Patterson's model of servant leadershipp. 170
Developing the measurep. 172
Current literature reviewp. 173
The SLAI and other instruments: a comparisonp. 176
Conclusionp. 178
The Place for Qualitative Research Methods in the Study of Servant Leadershipp. 180
Ethnographic studiesp. 181
The role of culturep. 182
Critical social studiesp. 183
Phenomenological studiesp. 183
In-depth interviewsp. 184
Focus groupsp. 185
Exemplar case studiesp. 185
Grounded theoryp. 186
Observational studies in different environmental contextsp. 188
Issues in qualitative researchp. 189
Conclusionp. 191
Referencesp. 192
Indexp. 214
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