Benevolent Leadership: Conceptualization and Construct Development

Scale Development and Construct Clarification of Servant Leadership

This article presents an integrated construct of servant leadership derived from a review of the literature. Subscale items were developed to measure 11 potential dimensions of servant leadership: calling, listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, growth, and community building. Data from 80 leaders and 388 raters were used to test the intern...

The Dangers of Poor Construct Conceptualization

level and is expected to have several distinct subdimensions, it is important to think about not only the relationships between the measures and these first-order subdimensions but also about the relationships between the first-order subdimensions and the second-order construct they measure. My colleagues and I (Jarvis et al. forthcoming) provide several examples of marketing constructs concept...

Leadership development and school improvement: contemporary issues in leadership development

There is great interest in educational leadership in the early part of the twenty-first century. This is because of the widespread belief that the quality of leadership makes a significant difference to school and student outcomes. In many parts of the world, including both developed and developing countries, there is increasing recognition that schools require effective leaders and managers if...

Organizational and Leadership Development

Organizational and Leadership Development