Servant leadership

1. Althea Linda Wasson, RN, BSN
The University of Texas at Arlington College of
Nursing
In partial fulfillment of the requirements of
N5311 Nursing Management In Health Care
Environment
Stephanee Thurman, MSN, RN

2. Leadership is the use of
relational skills to inspire other
people’s thoughts, principles,
actions, and outlooks to achieve
a certain objective
(Curtis, de Vries, & Sheerin, 2011; Gibson, et al, 2012)

3. Robert Greenleaf (1977)
Ancient philosophies and
Christian beliefs
Serving one another
Ten Servant Leadership
Characteristics
(http://www.greenleaf.org/aboutus/history.html; Smith, 2005))

4. Barbuto-Wheeler Servant
Leadership Questionnaire
 Assesses Servant Leadership
characteristics
Cronbach’s alpha coefficient
0.68 to 0.87
(Garber, et al, 2009; Smith, 2005)

5. (Image courtesy of: http://blog.compassion.com/christian-servant-leadership/)

6. Empowers and encourages
Serves others and celebrates
successes
Appreciates and cherishes
Satisfies the need to help others
Promote needs of the team
(Mahon, 2011; Waterman, 2011)

7. It is all about:
Serving
Encouraging
Growing

8. Atmosphere that promotes
open involvement and collective
resolution.
Promotes a well rounded
employee
Encourages work-life balance
(www.brighthub.com)

9. Perceived as soft or weak leaders
Too much power to employees
Unsuitable in aggressive work
place
brighthub.com

10. Positive work environment
Encourages and edifies
Provides tools

11. Shared governance
Autonomy
Democratic leadership
(Clark, 2009)

12. Consistency
Transparency
Understanding
Availability
Helpfulness
(Mahon, 2011)

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14.  Clark, C.C. (2009). Creative nursing leadership &
management. Sudbury, Massachusetts: Jones
and Bartlett.
 Curtis, E. A., de Vries, J., & Sheerin, F. K. (2011).
Developing leadership in nursing: Exploring core
factors. British Journal of Nursing (BJN), 20(5),
306-309.
http://www.britishjournalofnursing.com/
 Garber, J. S., Madigan, E. A., Click, E. R., &
Fitzpatrick, J. J. (2009). Attitudes towards
collaboration and servant leadership among
nurses, physicians and residents. Journal of
Interprofessional Care, 23(4), 331-340. doi:
10.1080/13561820902886253

15.  Gibson, J. L., Ivancevich, J. M., Donnelly, Jr., J.
H., & Konopaske, R. (2012). Organizations:
 Behavior, structure, processes. (14th ed.). New
York, NY: McGraw-Hill Irwin.
 Mahon, K. (2011). In praise of servant leadership
-- horizontal service to others. Dynamics,
22(4), 5-6.
http://www.caccn.ca/en/publications/dynamics/i
ndex.html

16.  Smith, C. (2005, December 04). The leadership
theory of robert k. greenleaf. Retrieved from
http://www.carolsmith.us/downloads/640greenl
eaf.pdf
 Waterman, H. (2011). Principles of 'servant
leadership' and how they can enhance practice.
Nursing Management - UK, 17(9), 24-26.
www.lww.com/Nursing-Management