Servant leadership is positioned as a new field of research for leadership scholars. This review deals with the historical background of servant leadership, its key characteristics, the available measurement tools, and the results of relevant studies that have been conducted so far. An overall conceptual model of servant leadership is presented. It is argued that leaders who combine their motiv...

Leadership has been a major topic of research in psychology for almost a century and has spawned thousands of empirical and conceptual studies. Despite this level of effort, however, the various parts of this literature still appear disconnected and directionless. In our opinion, a major cause of this state of the field is that many studies of leadership are context free; that is, low considera...

Although a numerous models about leadership roles are available in the literature however considering our environment and contemporary developments there was a dire need to design and propose a model which can better provide the concept of genuine roles to be played by the leaders in organizations. After going through a bulk literature and existing very famous and effective leadership models, a...

This chapter presents a conceptual model and a research agenda regarding leadership and diversity issues as they pertain to the Canadian Forces (CF). First, background information and definitions are provided. Then, the benefits of organizational diversity are reviewed. Following this, the current Canadian employment equity legislation is explained, including how it applies to the CF. Then, sta...

The increasing importance of educational collaborations and networks that blur organizational boundaries requires conceptual developments in leadership theory. One approach to both theorizing and promoting such phenomena is through the idea of system leadership. Three different meanings of the term are identified: interschool leadership; a systemic leadership orientation and identity; and leade...

This paper presents a conceptual model to explain employee security behaviors as a function of manager’s transgressions in the workplace. To date, most information systems security (ISS) studies neglect the effects poor leadership can have on the security of organizational ISS. This paper seeks to broaden the study of leadership in information systems security by examining negative effects of l...

This article presents a conceptual construct for the discovery and articulation of emergent knowledge. The model is based on two widely accepted research methods, action learning and grounded theory, and introduces the role of the organizational knowledge facilitator. Essentially, the model allows organizations to gain practical and highly current experiential knowledge from employees working i...