Servant Leadership and Ethics

Elijah Agyapong (), Stephen M. King () and Gary E. Roberts ()
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Elijah Agyapong: Regent University
Stephen M. King: Regent University
Gary E. Roberts: Regent University

Chapter 64 in The Palgrave Handbook of Servant Leadership, 2023, pp 1597-1625 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A foundational attribute of servant leadership is promoting moral and ethical organizational cultures. Ethical and moral conduct is a vital element of public trust in institutions and government in general. At both the macro- and microlevels, servant leaders in government are grappling with policy, leadership, and management problems characterized by rapidly changing attributes and competing and conflicting values. In their analysis of ethical and moral problems and issues, servant leaders employ a nuanced and multidimensional set of ethical attributes. In this chapter, we focus on whether local government administrators possess a balanced servant leader ethical predispositional profile (e.g., deontological, teleological, and character virtue ethics) while controlling for two personality attributes, the “Big Five personality traits” and “Dark Triad personality types.” Utilizing a self-developed ethical dispositional survey instrument and two public domain personality instruments, we survey a convenience sample of Virginia and Alabama city and county public administrators and managers. We demonstrate that the sample of managers generally possesses a balanced ethical servant leadership predisposition profile but with a significant degree of variability. Future empirical research is necessary to determine how the relationship between ethical predisposition and personality attributes affects managerial decision-making behavior.

Keywords: Ethical predisposition; Big Five; Dark Triad; Local government; Servant leadership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-01323-2_96

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