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1. Servant Leadership in Sport: Theory and Practice

Author : Gregory S. Sullivan

Published in: Servant Leadership in Sport

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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This chapter serves as the introductory chapter to the book. In this chapter, the reader is presented with the primary hypotheses supporting a model of servant leadership including antecedents, applications, and outcomes. Before describing the model, a brief overview of leadership is provided to offer some context as to how leadership theories have evolved from a trait, behavioral, to an other-centered approach. A brief overview of the construct of servant leadership is then offered before discussing its proposed antecedent. It is proposed that for one to be prepared to meet the needs of others, a primary tenet of servant leadership, they need to experience personal need satisfaction and well-being. Seligman’s 2011 well-being theory is used as a proxy for well-being and includes character strengths as supportive of the elements of well-being positive emotions, engagement, positive relationships, meaning, and accomplishment or his PERMA model. Through experiencing well-being, it is proposed that need satisfaction is experienced. Need satisfaction is described using self-determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan in Intrinsic Motivation and Self-determination in Human Behavior. Plenum, New York, NY, 1985) and includes the need for autonomy, belongingness or relatedness, and competency. It is proposed that need satisfaction for servant leaders better enables them to meet the needs of others and provides a number of positive outcomes.

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Title: Servant Leadership in Sport: Theory and Practice
Author: Gregory S. Sullivan
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Servant Leadership in Sport
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-11247-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-11248-6

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11248-6_1