Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Leadership Studies Commons™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Gonzaga University

Discipline
Keyword
Publication Year
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 181 - 210 of 779

Full-Text Articles in Leadership Studies

#Mynypd Nodes And Networks: Mobilization And Engagement, Tracey J. Hayes Jan 2018

#Mynypd Nodes And Networks: Mobilization And Engagement, Tracey J. Hayes

Communication & Leadership Faculty Scholarship

This article will discuss a social network analysis of tweets within the #MyNYPD protest, a public protest against police brutality and abuse of power that occurred via Twitter. I examined the five days containing the most tweets from six months of collected data to understand: What are the relationships between/among players’ activity online? The tweets were collected through Node XL and then analyzed through Gephi, social network analysis software. Through examining the most proficient tweeters, either by the number of tweets or the number of retweets their tweets garnered, the connections between different players and their roles within the protest …


Discerning Service: The Leader As Servant And The Ignatian Tradition, Luke Lavin Jan 2018

Discerning Service: The Leader As Servant And The Ignatian Tradition, Luke Lavin

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Throughout his spiritual autobiography, Ignatius of Loyola humbly refers to himself as the pilgrim. Ironically, it is a group of pilgrims in Herman Hesse s The Journey to The East that inspires Robert Greenleaf s understanding of the servant as leader. In the late 16th century, Ignatius witnessed and was a product of the turbulent European Reformation the reason infusion of the Renaissance, and the expansive globalization of the Age of Exploration. Greenleaf, an executive for AT&T throughout the mid-twentieth century, witnessed the American countercultural movement of the nineteen sixties and the institutionalization of the American workplace. Both men provided …


My Father As A Lifelong Servant-Leader, Jonathan Potter Jan 2018

My Father As A Lifelong Servant-Leader, Jonathan Potter

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

My father, Ted Potter, is supposedly retired. He has had a long, interesting, and varied career, first as a teacher, then as a real estate agent, broker, appraiser, and consultant. Although my dad has not formally studied the literature of servant-leadership, I believe his life and work exemplify much of what Greenleaf and other scholars have conceptualized as characteristic of the servant-leader approach to interpersonal and organizational management and leadership. Over the course of a few days at the end of summer, as the leaves on the trees began turning on their fall flare, I engaged my dad in an …


A Personal Remembrance Of Warren Bennis, Larry C. Spears Jan 2018

A Personal Remembrance Of Warren Bennis, Larry C. Spears

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

In January 2010, I fulfilled a decades-long dream of driving Route 66 from Chicago to the Santa Monica Pier and back. On Jan. 21, 2010 I celebrated making it to the Pacific Ocean by 41 I visiting with a dear friend, the noted leadership author Warren Bennis, who lived in Santa Monica


The Anchor Of Servant-Leadership: Julius Nyerere And The Virtue Of Humility, Peter Mulinge Jan 2018

The Anchor Of Servant-Leadership: Julius Nyerere And The Virtue Of Humility, Peter Mulinge

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

The emergence of the concept of servant-leadership initiated a new era of moral emphasis in the field of leadership, which was and still is dominated by self-serving models of leadership. When Robert Greenleaf (1970) conceived servant-leadership as a philosophy and practical model of leadership, he highlighted the need for a better approach to leadership, one that embraces the notion of serving others as the number one priority. He visualized leaders who would take a more a holistic approach to work, promote a sense of community, and to share power in decision making (SanFacon & Spears 2011, p. 115). Fundamentally, servantleadership …


Servant-Leadership As Loving Leadership: Explorations For Catholic Health Ministry, Michael D. Cox Jan 2018

Servant-Leadership As Loving Leadership: Explorations For Catholic Health Ministry, Michael D. Cox

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Leading within Catholic health care is a growing struggle as the health care environment undergoes monumental change. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a significant force in shaping health care policy, lists its five primary focus areas on its website: Improvement Capability; Patient and Family Experience; Patient Safety; Quality, Cost and Value; and Triple Aim for Populations (IHI, n.d.). Successfully addressing each area provides unique challenges to leaders because each area demands significant changes to individual behavior and organizational structure. Added to this is the reality that any improvement in one area likely adds complexity to another area. For example, …


The Invisible Dimension Of Leadership And Culture: Part I, Paul Nakai, Dustin W. Seale Jan 2018

The Invisible Dimension Of Leadership And Culture: Part I, Paul Nakai, Dustin W. Seale

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

The ultimate success of any venture and organization is determined by how it is perceived by those it employs as well as by those it serves. Much of the focus to maximize this effect has been localized to the behaviors, attitudes and feelings that seem to accompany this phenomenon. There have been numerous endeavors that train customer service skills, listening, coaching, positive attitudes, quality, etc. Each intervention has yielded insightful results, but have they been able to fulfill their maximal intention?


Make Your Life Extraordinary: The Teacher As Servant-Leader, Michael J. Reilly, Larry C. Spears Jan 2018

Make Your Life Extraordinary: The Teacher As Servant-Leader, Michael J. Reilly, Larry C. Spears

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

The essence of teaching and learning captures the noblest aspects of a person s inner being. Its foundation rests on the conscious giving of self, the creative sharing of one s knowledge and insights, and the contribution to the growth and development of others. Teaching has the capacity to enrich the potential of others. The learning process has the energy to transform the capabilities of others so that the lives of all become better and more fulfilled. Teaching transcends the ordinary, empowering all. Through giving, caring, and sharing, effective teachers establish genuine relationships with their students, thereby enabling them to …


Altruism And Altruistic Love: Intrinsic Motivation For Servant-Leadership, Peter Mulinge Jan 2018

Altruism And Altruistic Love: Intrinsic Motivation For Servant-Leadership, Peter Mulinge

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

In a world where self-interest and selfishness are often a way of life, it is a mystery to see altruistic people commit their lives to the benefit of others, while self-centered people are becoming more isolated and focused on themselves, rather than others. Seltzer (2016) explained that the self-centeredness of narcissists perpetuates their grandiosity, sense of entitlement, lack of empathy, and exploitative relationships. Self-centered narcissists perceive themselves as different from others; they lack understanding of self and value for others at a fundamental level. Understanding of self is very critical in life, it includes knowing one s agendas and the …


One Gaza Family Observes A Grim Holiday In Wartime1, Shaindel Beers Jan 2018

One Gaza Family Observes A Grim Holiday In Wartime1, Shaindel Beers

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Yesterday my son learned to open the deadbolt. Upset about his toys forgotten at daycare, he slipped out the front door while I was changing clothes, tried to go back to get them himself. When I came out of the bedroom, he was gone. For those two minutes, my heart stopped until I scooped him up crying in the driveway. Today, I thought of the mothers of Gaza.


The (Im)Precision Of Language, Shaindel Beers Jan 2018

The (Im)Precision Of Language, Shaindel Beers

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

How far the ring-necked dove is from wringing a dove's neck. The way a stand of trees can hide a deer stand, concealing the hunter who will shoot the deer. The deer, who will fall in the fall in the fallow field.


When The World Speaks Life: Servant-Leadership As A Guiding Force Below Conscious Being1, Shann Ray Ferch Jan 2018

When The World Speaks Life: Servant-Leadership As A Guiding Force Below Conscious Being1, Shann Ray Ferch

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

As I consider the beautiful writings in this year s journal, I am humbled. The poets, scholars, and scientists contained in this volume represent an investment of heart, mind, and soul in the process and practice of servant-leadership worldwide. I want to thank each writer, wholeheartedly, for their contribution, and for helping to heal the heart of the world. Because of them, I am reminded of the servantleadership that informed my life in the wilderness of Montana as a boy, and later, as a man.


A Journey In Servant-Leadership, Larry C. Spears Jan 2018

A Journey In Servant-Leadership, Larry C. Spears

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Welcome to our 2018 edition of The International Journal of Servant-Leadership. I would like to offer my special thanks to all of our contributing authors in this journal. The depth and breadth of articles and papers, poetry and research, film reviews and reflections demonstrate the vibrant nature of our ongoing journey in servant-leadership from around the world.


For The Beauty Of The Earth: Serving Others Through Being Fully Present, Jiying Song Jan 2018

For The Beauty Of The Earth: Serving Others Through Being Fully Present, Jiying Song

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Have you ever tried to describe a quiet summer afternoon in the garden? You are sitting in the shade, feeling the breeze, smelling the barbeque aroma from the neighborhood, drinking iced tea, listening to birds chirping, and watching the sunlight embracing leaves, flowers, and grass. We are made out of dust; that is how attached to the earth we are. We may be looking at a garden, but are we present to the beauty of the earth?


The Will To (Share) Power: Privilege, Positionality, And The Servant-Leader, Jennifer Tilghman-Havens Jan 2018

The Will To (Share) Power: Privilege, Positionality, And The Servant-Leader, Jennifer Tilghman-Havens

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

As an administrator at a university, I find myself reflecting on the cycles of years that mark the time our students walk the sidewalks of our campus. As one considers the last four years for our traditional graduating seniors, the formational national landscape that emerges is a critical one. As first year students, they watched protests erupt in Ferguson over the shooting of high school graduate Michael Brown (Bosman & Fitzsimmons, 2014) and immigration debates across Europe due to the Syrian refugee crisis (Robins-Early, 2015). As sophomores, they learned of the intended oil pipeline across the indigenous land of the …


The Ontological Foundations Of Digital Art, RóIsíN Lally Jan 2018

The Ontological Foundations Of Digital Art, RóIsíN Lally

Leadership Studies Faculty Scholarship

In recent decades, the internet has become our predominant public space and yet the role of art in this space remains largely unthought. This paper argues that graphic art, and in particular digital graphic art, has great power to shape and transform our thinking and experience. But with that power comes an enormous political and ethical responsibility, a responsibility too often ignored by programmers and computer scientists. This paper uses the work of Denis Schmidt and Jacques Taminiaux as important resources for developing a Heideggerian response to this lack.


5cs Of Managerial Leadership, Nalini Vadivelan Jan 2018

5cs Of Managerial Leadership, Nalini Vadivelan

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Twenty-first Century work life is portrayed by Hirschhorn (1997) as, new conditions of work [that] simultaneously pull us toward interdependence while pushing us toward estrangement. This is the new dialectic of the post-industrial age (p. 90). Dysfunctional families, socio-economic imbalances, and political instability caused by inapt leaders warrants to explore the impact of organizations on humanity. Great minds shape technology, innovation, research and development in these organizations. In return, big organizations drive the economy, politics, global warming, and business competition. Though many organizations invest in retention policies, employees have less loyalty, seek better compensation and work conditions. A concern for …


Servant-Leadership Decision-Making Rubric: A Greenleaf-Inspired Assessment Tool For Employee-Based Issues, Henry J. Davis Jan 2018

Servant-Leadership Decision-Making Rubric: A Greenleaf-Inspired Assessment Tool For Employee-Based Issues, Henry J. Davis

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Making decisions that directly affect others is often a stressful endeavor for those in leadership positions. This tension may derive from variables such as personal relationships with employees or concerns on how one may be perceived after an action is executed in the workplace, causing the leader in question to make reactionary decisions against their better judgment (Rosanas, 2013). Compounding the scope of a leader s decision-making activity are additional conditions ranging from potential lack of experience with a particular situation to being overwhelmed with several vague options instead of a set of well thought out possibilities to choose from …


Servant-Leadership In Higher Education In Saudi Arabia, Areej Abdullah Shafai Jan 2018

Servant-Leadership In Higher Education In Saudi Arabia, Areej Abdullah Shafai

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Saudi Arabia is seeking to create more effective leaders who meet the highest needs of individuals without using their authority to complete tasks. When looking deeply at servant leadership approach in higher education in Saudi Arabia, no known studies reflected what is really happening in practice with Saudi higher educational leaders in terms of defining and providing service. To better understand their leadership methods, it is significant to address their ways of employing authority in their day-to-day operations since power is tightly linked to leadership. The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of servant-leadership as it applies …


Picture Books Exemplifying Servant-Leadership, Carolyn Crippen Jan 2018

Picture Books Exemplifying Servant-Leadership, Carolyn Crippen

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

No abstract provided.


Guide To The Robert K. Greenleaf Papers, Andover Newton Theological School Library Staff, Yale Divinity School Library Staff Jan 2018

Guide To The Robert K. Greenleaf Papers, Andover Newton Theological School Library Staff, Yale Divinity School Library Staff

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Greenleaf was born in 1904 in Terre Haute, Indiana. He attended Rose Polytechnic (an engineering school) in Terre Haute for several years, then transferred to Carleton College in Minnesota. He graduated as a math major in 1926 and took a job with AT and T (telephone company). During his 38-year career with the company he served as Director of Management Development, originator of the world s first corporate assessment center, promotion of the first females and blacks to non-menial positions, a program to expose up-and-coming leaders to the humanities, even bringing in famous theologians and psychologists to speak about the …


Changing Dynamics Of Media Guidelines For Suicide Reporting In The Age Of Instant Messaging, William Patrick Brown Jan 2017

Changing Dynamics Of Media Guidelines For Suicide Reporting In The Age Of Instant Messaging, William Patrick Brown

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

Efforts to lower the teenage suicide rate in America have been a complete failure. The purpose of this Project is to provide a production guide and literature review for use in the production of a short-film documentary that discusses the steadily increasing teen suicide rate in America. Using an historical research methodology, evidence indicates that the historical media practice of not reporting teen suicide may be detrimental to society’s teen suicide prevention efforts. Recent statistics from the CDC (2016) indicate a dramatic increase in teen suicides, some believe that this increase may be due to a corresponding increase in text …


The Object Toward Which The Action Of The Sea Is Directed, Ellen Welcker Jan 2017

The Object Toward Which The Action Of The Sea Is Directed, Ellen Welcker

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

You know I want this to be about me. When I say oooo I mean the tumor. When I say oooo I mean denning up in the pons. Is it really such a bad bad.


Thriving – The “All In” Mindset First Comes The Test, And Then Comes The Lesson, James Hart, Paul Nakai Jan 2017

Thriving – The “All In” Mindset First Comes The Test, And Then Comes The Lesson, James Hart, Paul Nakai

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in …


Antecedents And Outcomes Of Servant Leadership: Understanding The Effects Of Leader Motivation, Character, And Perceived Organizational Support, Kevin J. Hurt, Matthew Heath Jan 2017

Antecedents And Outcomes Of Servant Leadership: Understanding The Effects Of Leader Motivation, Character, And Perceived Organizational Support, Kevin J. Hurt, Matthew Heath

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

No abstract provided.


The Leadership Philosophy Of Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933), Judy I. Caldwell, Carolyn Crippen Jan 2017

The Leadership Philosophy Of Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933), Judy I. Caldwell, Carolyn Crippen

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

The current study used qualitative historical analysis methodology to investigate systematically whether there was evidence of servant leadership competencies in Mary Parker Follett s work and life. Although Follett conducted her work approximately 100 years ago, many of her ideas, such as win-win, power-over versus power-with, and conflict resolution, would be considered leading edge today. In fact, Warren Bennis (2003) argued that, Just about everything written today about leadership and organizations comes from Mary Parker Follett s writings and lectures (p. 178) and Peter Drucker (2003) referred to her as the prophet of management (p. 9).


Serving A Death-Denying Culture: Funeral Directors As Servant-Leaders, Shelby Chism, Michael G. Strawser Jan 2017

Serving A Death-Denying Culture: Funeral Directors As Servant-Leaders, Shelby Chism, Michael G. Strawser

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Funeral directors have labeled the typical American society a death-denying culture. For example, parents may try to shield children from the death event because of previous occurrences with death and the funeral home (Mahon, 2009). Unfortunately, by protecting others, the death-denying culture is perpetuated (Mahon, 2009). Therefore, it is no surprise that research on funeral directors, and funeral homes, may be underdeveloped. To address the scarcity of research literature on the impact of funeral directors, this article discusses the importance of the death care industry and provides an overview of servant-leadership theory as a framework for understanding the role of …


Powerless To Powerful: Leadership For School Change, A Book Review, Rebecca Barrett-Fox Jan 2017

Powerless To Powerful: Leadership For School Change, A Book Review, Rebecca Barrett-Fox

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Nearly half of new teachers leave the profession within their first five years including almost ten percent who leave after their first year, according to the 2014 Consortium for Police Research in Education report Seven Trends: The Transformation of the Teaching Force. Among the factors that push people who were, at one point, committed enough to education to earn a degree in it to change their career goals, change fatigue is high on the list. Constant criticism, pressure to turn around schools labeled as failing, and the perpetual implementation of new programs with new roles for teachers, new demands on …


A Journey In Servant-Leadership, Larry C. Spears Jan 2017

A Journey In Servant-Leadership, Larry C. Spears

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

Welcome to our 2015-2017 edition of The International Journal of Servant-Leadership. I would like to offer my special thanks to all of our contributing authors in this journal. The depth and breadth of articles and papers, poetry and research, film reviews and reflections demonstrates the vibrant nature of our ongoing journey in servant-leadership from around the world.


Bring Me My Bow Of Burning Gold, Shann Ray Ferch Jan 2017

Bring Me My Bow Of Burning Gold, Shann Ray Ferch

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

No abstract provided.