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Practicing Servant Leadership

Developments in Implementation

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Links servant leadership to key HR challenges in modern organizations
  • Emphasises the need to build a leadership culture and work environment that encourages personal development of employees
  • Written by key thinkers who are the forefront of developments in leadership studies

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Introduction

    • Dirk van Dierendonck, Kathleen Patterson
    Pages 1-7
  3. Erratum to: Mindfulness as a Building Block for Servant Leadership

    • Armin Pircher Verdorfer, Johannes Arendt
    Pages E1-E1
  4. Positioning Servant Leadership

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
    2. Leader Purposefulness and Servant Leadership

      • Justin A. Irving
      Pages 25-42
  5. Becoming the Servant Leader

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
    2. Mindfulness as a Building Block for Servant Leadership

      • Armin Pircher Verdorfer, Johannes Arendt
      Pages 101-116
  6. Building a Servant Leadership Culture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
    2. Building a People-Oriented and Servant-Led Organization

      • Dirk van Dierendonck
      Pages 169-186
  7. Towards a Servant Leadership Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
    2. The Servant Leadership Pin: Bursting the Generational Bubble

      • Jane Waddell, Kathleen Patterson
      Pages 211-230
    3. Incorporating Organizational Ambidexterity in the Public Sector Through Servant Leadership

      • Miguel Martinez de Castro Pinto Luz, Milton Sousa
      Pages 231-248
    4. Improving Health Care Organizations Through Servant Leadership

      • Sigrún Gunnarsdóttir, Kasper Edwards, Lotta Dellve
      Pages 249-273

About this book

Building on the original writings of Robert K. Greenleaf, this edited collection provides new insights into servant leadership theory and broadens the conceptual framework with a developmental perspective on modern organisations. Bringing together a group of active servant leadership researchers and practitioners from around the world, this book applies Greenleaf’s original ideas to current challenges within today’s businesses. The authors explore theoretical topics such as purposefulness, compassion, personal growth and mindfulness, as well as providing practical models for implementing a servant leadership culture within organisations, with a particular focus on public administration and the health care industry.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Dirk van Dierendonck

  • School of Business and Leadership, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA, USA

    Kathleen Patterson

About the editors

Dirk van Dierendonck is Professor of Human Resource Management and Dean of Faculty at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Additionally he is the Academic Director of the Erasmus Centre for Human Resource Excellence. Dirk has written numerous books, book chapters and scholarly articles in major academic journals. With Kathleen Patterson he is the co-author of Servant Leadership: Developments in Theory and Research, published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Kathleen Patterson serves as Professor and Director of the Doctor of Strategic Leadership program in the School of Business & Leadership at Regent University, USA. She is noted as an expert on servant leadership, and has co-coordinated three Global Servant Leadership Research Roundtables, in the Netherlands, Australia, and Iceland.

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Softcover Book USD 179.99
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