Part 1 – Literature Review
- In this portion of the paper, you will conduct a literature review of the major studies of servant leadership.
- You must employ 15 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals, in addition to the required reading.
- Based upon this literature review, you should develop the major criteria of servant leadership behavior.
- Though this is to be an individual assignment, you should include as part of your criteria a brief summary from your team’s Biblical Integration paper
- This part is to be 2–3 pages in length, 12 pt. font, double-spaced and APA format.
Part 2–Leadership Interview
- You will interview an established servant leader.
- Interview your chosen leader based upon the following criteria:
- The leader must be from a large organization (e.g. Fortune 1000 company, national non-profit organization, branch of the Armed Services or a mega-church with membership over 10,000).
- The selected leaders must have both rank (e.g. Business: a Division Head or Vice President; Military: Full Colonel or Navy Captain (O-6 or above); Ministry: Executive or Senior Pastor of a mega-church) and command (e.g. he must have managerial authority).
- A high ranking accountant does not qualify. However, the director of the accounting department for the whole company may qualify).
- The selected interviewee may be active or retired
- NOTE: for the purposes of diversity, Liberty University and Thomas Road Baptist Church leaders are not eligible
- You will develop your own set of questions for the interviewee; based upon the literature review and whatever else you feel that is appropriate from what you have learned in this course.
- Tips for the interview process:
- Identify yourself as a graduate student doing research and make it clear that you will take no more than 30 minutes of the executive’s time.
- Explain that you are in a leadership class and that you are learning about servant leadership.
- Tell your interviewee that you have identified him or her as a servant leader and that you want to find out a real executive’s perspective of servant leadership. Have a good reason. (e.g. personal knowledge, an article you have read, testimony of subordinates, etc.)
- Be sure that you can contact your interviewees again if you need to ask follow-up questions or to just say thank you for their time.
- Provide a summary of the leader’s answers.
- Develop criteria which describes the leader’s perspective on servant leadership behavior.
- This part is to be 2-3 pages in length, 12 pt. font, double-spaced.
Part 3 – Comparison/Contrast
- How does the leader’s criteria for servant leadership behavior compare to the criteria you discovered from the servant leadership academic research?
- How does it compare to the things you’ve learned about servant leadership from the group discussions?
- This part is to be 3-4 pages, 12 pt. font, double-spaced.
Completed Paper
- 7-10 pages in total length, PLUS a title page, abstract page, and reference page.
- Use of 15 scholarly sources plus the required reading and presentations.
- Appropriate use of citations to avoid plagiarism
- 12 point font, double-spaced
- APA format
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