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Compassionate Love as a Cornerstone of Servant Leadership: An Integration of Previous Theorizing and Research

verfasst von: Dirk van Dierendonck, Kathleen Patterson

Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics | Ausgabe 1/2015

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Servant leadership is increasingly gaining interest inside and outside academia. This article builds and extends current theorizing by describing the process that introduces compassionate love as a practical translation for the need to serve, which was positioned by Greenleaf (Servant leadership: a journey into the nature of legitimate power and greatness, Paulist Press, New York, 1977) as the core of servant leadership. This article takes a virtues perspective and shows how servant leadership may encourage a more meaningful and optimal human functioning with a strong sense of community to current-day organizations. In essence, we propose that a leader’s propensity for compassionate love will encourage a virtuous attitude in terms of humility, gratitude, forgiveness and altruism. This virtuous attitude will give rise to servant leadership behavior in terms of empowerment, authenticity, stewardship and providing direction.

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Titel: Compassionate Love as a Cornerstone of Servant Leadership: An Integration of Previous Theorizing and Research
verfasst von: Dirk van Dierendonck
Kathleen Patterson
Publikationsdatum: 01.04.2015
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 1/2015
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2085-z

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