Applicability of Servant Leadership in College Sports-Men

Table of Contents

Chapter 13

Introduction3

Statement of the Problem4

Background4

Purpose of Research5

Research Questions6

Chapter II6

Literature Review6

Theoretical Framework6

Critical Analysis of Servant Leadership6

Empathy8

Healing9

Awareness9

Conceptualization10

References12

Applicability of Servant Leadership in College Sports-Men

Chapter 1

Introduction

The researchers have shown keen interest in the study of servant leadership after the famous publication of the essay in 1977 by Greenleaf on topic of “Servant as Leader”. Numerous practitioners and scholars of leadership have been studying the possibilities of implementing the servant leadership in the organizational contests (Sendjaya, Sarros & Santora, 2008, Sendjaya & Sarros, 2002, Graham, 1991;; Barbuto & Wheeler, 2006). The challenges related to the organizational workforce are changing continuously which has compelled the companies to search for leadership styles which can effectively work in the provided organizational life context. The leaders of the organizations focus on improving the caring and quality of institutions to concurrently improve and increase the productivity of the employee. They achieve this by incorporating community building, empowering the employees to enable them for decision making, involving them in developing a caring and ethical behavior and establishing a strong teamwork among employees (Spears, 1995).

We will be studying this approach and will add new analysis about the possibility of implementation in sports area. Our goal will be to review the previous literature published on the leadership skills of the sports people. These studies include the growth, perseverance, motivations, and skills of leadership, willingness to serves it own communities. They had also studied the effects of respect of identity and self-reliance on leadership skills (Potuto and Hanlon, 2006; Richards and Aries, 1995; Ryan, 1989; White, Duda and Keller, 1998).

Sports men have to balance both the bodily stress necessary to contend successfully as well as the severities at the college level of academics. The sports-men take to her or his establishment beliefs, personal values, leadership skills and talents. Though, the query if sports-men's build up high-quality skills of leadership all through their college period is still debatable. Investigation over the existence has given assorted results relating to this query which makes this research precious to the field of leadership (Gayles and Hu, 2009; Stone and Strange, 1989; Blann, 1985; Suart, 1985).

Statement of the Problem

It is not possible to actually measure and predict the leadership types sports men learn at the college sports teams. Consequently, this research inspects if there is a connection between persons who contribute in intercollegiate sports activities having the servant leadership subscales. The servant leadership performances were self-reported by each student. The subsequent queries direct this research:

Do the sports men exhibit more contribution in sports after being guided by servant leadership?

Do the performance differ in gender and different class graders who are guided by servant leadership?

Background

Leadership in universal has been researched for many decades and it is significant to identify the chronological educational view point when trying to conduct research in this field. Since this research scrutinized a comparatively new leadership concept, servant leadership, it is critical to recognize the researches of past scholars on leader- follower leadership and leadership ...