Global Virtue Ethics Review articles

Recent articles from Global Virtue Ethics Review

Servant leadership--an introduction.
July 1, 2004... The Concept The paradoxical term, "servant-leadership," which appears to touch an innate need in many of us, and which therefore harks back to the beginning of time, became popularized twenty-five years ago by Robert Greenleaf in his books Servant Leadership (1977) and Teacher as Servant...

Normative education: putting the public servant in public service.
July 1, 2004... Abstract Two distinct approaches to public service and public service education can be identified--the rational approach and the normative approach. This article advocates the use of the normative approach to education, which would focus on developing stewardship, honesty, integrity,...

Symposium on servant leadership.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... In the late 1990's, Robert Cunningham lead a roundtable discussion on the topic of Servant Leadership at a joint Public Administration Theory Network and Teaching Public Administration conference in Colorado. At that time, few of us attending the discussion had heard of Servant Leadership or...

Service before self: towards a theory of servant-leadership.
July 1, 2004... Abstract This article explores the relationship between perceptions of leadership and the level of trust between employees and supervisors. More specifically, this article seeks to begin a theoretical discussion of a particular leadership approach, servant leadership, introduces an...

Servant leadership: a manifistation of postmaterialism?
July 1, 2004... Abstract Servant Leadership has been brewing since the 1970s and has recently emerged in public administration as a postmodern alternative to traditional and modern leadership theories. Infused with notions of morality and interdependency, service and exchange, Servant Leadership rejects...