Ethical Foundations of Servant-Leadership Practice

Jae Webb ()
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Jae Webb: University of North Texas

Chapter 27 in The Palgrave Handbook of Servant Leadership, 2023, pp 651-675 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter explores foundational elements of ethics and servant-leadership to highlight and explicate the strength of the relationship between the two practices. In an exploration of moral character, as promoted within virtue ethics, and discussion of the traits and nature of servant-leaders, a natural fit between the two emerges. While both ethics and servant-leadership are concerned with actions and behaviors, the foundational elements relate not to doing certain things but to being a certain way. Both constructs call for the development of a specific character in the self, yet it is a character not for the self but for the benefit and well-being of others. Without asserting only servant-leaders are ethical, a case is made that servant-leadership is an innately ethical practice.

Keywords: Servant-leader; Virtue ethics; Moral character; Leadership ethics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-01323-2_35

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