background: a new kind of leadership, called spiritual leadership, emphasizes on serving to others, general attitude toward work, personal development, and collaborative decision making. spiritual leadership has been developed based on the philosophy of servant leadership and includes staff participation and empowerment. this research aimed to survey the relationship between spiritual leadershi...

Servant Leadership is a holistic approach whereby leaders act with morality, showing great concern for the company’s stakeholders and engaging followers in multiple dimensions, such as emotional, relational ethical, to bring out their full potential empower them grow into what they are capable of becoming. leadership has been linked through various mediators positive individual collective outco...

The present study evaluates the psychometric properties of a German version of the Ethical Leadership at Work questionnaire (ELW-D), and further embeds the construct of ethical leadership within its nomological network. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) based on the total sample of N = 363 employees support the assumed seven-factor structure of the German translation. Within a sub-sample of N...

The initial journey that a developing researcher takes down the methodology ‘road’ can be fraught with confusion and dilemmas. Epistemological arguments can pull the researcher first one way and then the other. This paper describes and illustrates the research journey I experienced as a developing researcher while carrying out a case study of the practice of servant leadership in a higher educa...