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  • 1.  Servant leadership and organizational restructuring

    Posted 12-03-2012 12:08
    **Apologies for cross-posting**

    The National Academy of Human Resources recently sponsored an essay-writing
    competition inquiring as to how organizations might maintain high employee
    commitment given the ubiquity of organizational restructuring in the modern
    economy.

    I am a PhD candidate in I/O psychology at the University of Central Florida,
    and I actually won 2nd place in this national competition by discussing how
    fostering a culture of servant leadership seems to be the answer. The piece
    is relatively brief and I would like to develop the paper into a full-
    fledged journal submission.

    Because the paper uses servant leadership as its primary construct of
    interest, one place that could use work is a justification of why servant
    leadership is preferable over more widely-used approaches to leadership.

    Additionally, for funding reasons, I need to incorporate an element of
    culture into the paper. For example, how should servant leadership look
    differently (or would it at all) across cultures in order to maintain high
    levels of organizational commitment? Or, how do notions of legitimation,
    commitment, and/or leadership differ across cultures?

    If any of these questions interest you, and you'd like to help me put the
    finishing touches on this paper, I'd love to hear from you. Shoot me an
    email and I can send you a copy of the paper in its current format and we
    can talk about collaborating.

    Thanks!
    Chris W. Coultas
    I/O PhD candidate, UCF


  • 2.  Servant leadership and organizational restructuring

    Posted 12-03-2012 14:04

    In the 1970's, concluding 1982, Robert W. Greenleaf published through the Center for Applied Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, a series of essays on the servant as leader:

    The Servant as Leader, 1970

    The Institution as Servant, 1972

    Trustees as Servants, 1974, 2nd ed. 1975

    Advices to Servants, 1975

    Servant Retrospect and Prospect, 1980

    Seminary as Servant - essays on trusteeship, 1980, 1981

    The Servant as religious leader, 1982

    Several of these were supported by grants from the Lily Foundation.

    WHB

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    Professor, Philosophy

    136C Julian Park Hall

    University at Buffalo          Internet:  whbaumer@buffalo.edu

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    Subject: [OMT] Servant leadership and organizational restructuring

    **Apologies for cross-posting**

    The National Academy of Human Resources recently sponsored an essay-writing competition inquiring as to how organizations might maintain high employee commitment given the ubiquity of organizational restructuring in the modern economy.

    I am a PhD candidate in I/O psychology at the University of Central Florida, and I actually won 2nd place in this national competition by discussing how fostering a culture of servant leadership seems to be the answer. The piece is relatively brief and I would like to develop the paper into a full- fledged journal submission.

    Because the paper uses servant leadership as its primary construct of interest, one place that could use work is a justification of why servant leadership is preferable over more widely-used approaches to leadership.

    Additionally, for funding reasons, I need to incorporate an element of culture into the paper.  For example, how should servant leadership look differently (or would it at all) across cultures in order to maintain high levels of organizational commitment? Or, how do notions of legitimation, commitment, and/or leadership differ across cultures?

    If any of these questions interest you, and you'd like to help me put the finishing touches on this paper, I'd love to hear from you.  Shoot me an email and I can send you a copy of the paper in its current format and we can talk about collaborating.

    Thanks!

    Chris W. Coultas

    I/O PhD candidate, UCF