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EXPERIMENTATION/THEORY
What makes up Servant Leadership?

Based on Greenleaf’s ideas, L. C. Spears distinguished 10 characteristics that are generally quoted as the essential elements of servant leadership: listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stew- ardship, commitment, and building community. (ARTICLE REFERENCE: "Reflections on leadership: How Robert K. Greenleaf’s theory of servant-leadership influenced today’s top management thinkers.").

What types of measurements are used?

Question: should I give history context of the issues surrounding difficulties in measuring servant leadership? That many on the measurements focuses on certain aspects and not the full servant leadership?

Example: Ehrhart’s one-dimensional measure mostly captures the ‘service attitude’ factor and that the measure misses out with respect of accountability.

What is the highest valid measurement used?

In the article The Servant Leadership Survey: Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Measure by Dirk van Dierendonck and Inge Nuijten, both researchers described the development and validation of the Servant Leadership Survey (SLS). The SLS consists of eight dimensions that are believed to cover the most important aspects of servant leadership. In comparison to previous attempts of measurement the SLS includes the measurement of ‘servant’ but also the ‘leader’. New additions compared to the existing servant leadership instruments are accountability, courage, and forgiveness.

"The SLS is the first measure where the underlying factor structure was developed and confirmed across several field studies in two countries. It can be used in future studies to test the underlying premises of servant leadership theory. The SLS provides a clear picture of the key servant leadership qualities and shows where improvements can be made on the individual and organizational level; as such, it may also offer a valuable starting point for training and leadership development."

RESULTS

The final result is an eight-dimensional measure of 30 items: the eight dimensions being: standing back, forgiveness, courage, empowerment, accountability, authenticity, humility, and stewardship. Servant Leadership Survey (SLS) has convergent validity with other leadership measures, and also adds unique elements to the leadership field. Evidence for criterion-related validity came from studies relating the eight dimensions to well-being and performance.

POSSIBLE ARTICLES:

-Impact of transformational and servant leadership on organizational performance: A comparative analysis.

-A new scale to measure executive servant leadership: Development, analysis, and implications for research

QUESTIONS:

- For this section of the article will it be best to use the most widely accepted measurement and talk of nothing else?

-Focus on ways of measurement being unbiased and mentioned the measurements accepted?

- Will you need mention of the validity (which lacks over the years), or just the results?