International Journal of Leadership Studies - The Relationships among Servant Leadership, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Person-Organization Fit, and Organizational Identification

From the Editor

Dail Fields

This issue of the International Journal of Leadership Studies continues our diverse international offerings. The diversity of the research presented by our authors offers all of us an opportunity to develop global perspectives on the role of leaders and followers in organizations. Our authors continue to bless us with excellent material, and we continue to work hand-in-hand with authors to present interesting, educational, and professional research.

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I'm very happy to announce that Dr. Brenda Johnson of Gordon College has agreed to serve as associate editor of the International Journal of Leadership Studies. I am grateful that she has agreed to accept this role and look forward to working together with her to continuously improve IJLS.

Practitioner's Corner

Kirk G. Mensch & Myra E. Dingman

Organizational executives are becoming keenly aware of the importance of encouraging self-directed leader development and lifelong learning. It is also evident that a great deal of confusion abounds regarding what is meant by the practice of leader development. This paper explores the nature and source of this confusion and provides clarification regarding terminology and shifting paradigms in methodology and organizational culture. Furthermore, we propose a focus on personal transformation, moral development, and sustainable behavioral change as critical aspects of leader development. [ more ]

The Relationships among Servant Leadership, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Person-Organization Fit, and Organizational Identification

Michelle Vondey

This study proposes that there is a relationship between servant leadership and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and that person-organization fit and organizational identification moderate that relationship. One hundred fourteen participants completed a cross-sectional self-report survey. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that servant leadership behavior partially predicts organizational citizenship behaviors and that person-organization fit and organizational identification partially moderate the relationship between servant leadership and organizational citizenship behavior. One implication is that leaders who want to encourage citizenship behaviors among employees would do well to model those same behaviors toward others. [ more ]

Character and Leadership: Situating Servant Leadership in a Proposed Virtues Framework

James D. Lanctot & Justin A. Irving

Leadership scholars and practitioners have emphasized the important connection between ethics and leadership over the years. This connection is emphasized even more within the field of servant leadership. While the servant leadership models proposed over the past two decades have advanced our understanding of servant leadership and its application, there is an increasingly obvious need for a common vocabulary and framework for engaging the ethical dimensions of leadership that can be used to facilitate further research into the antecedents and philosophical foundations of servant leadership... [ more ]

Gender Differences and Transformational Leadership Behavior: Do Both German Men and Women Lead in the Same Way?

Thomas W. Kent, Carrie A. Blair, Howard F. Rudd & Ulrich Schuele

This article examines the differences between men and women leaders with respect to their transformational leadership behaviors. Subordinates of the leaders rated the frequency of use of transformational leadership behaviors from five different categories... [ more ]

Leadership and Spiritual Capital: Exploring the Link between Individual Service Disposition and Organizational Value

Anthony Middlebrooks & Alain Noghiu

Researchers have made considerable advances integrating spirituality and organizational leadership (Fry, 2003; Benefiel, 2005). The concept of spiritual capital has developed as a way of explaining and perhaps advocating this integration in a secular context... [ more ]

Faculty and Staff Grassroots Leaders' Beliefs About Power: Do Their Beliefs Affect Their Strategies and Effectiveness?

Adrianna Kezar

This study examines how grassroots leaders define and act on beliefs about and perceptions of power. In this article, we focus on the following research questions: RQ1. How do grassroots leaders understand and socially construct power?; and RQ2. How does their understanding of power impact their approach to grassroots leadership... [ more ]

Sensemaking Under Martial Law: Public Policy and Agrarian Reform in the Philippines

Carl Montaño & Lynn Godkin

This paper presents a case study of governmental sensemaking under martial law in the Philippines under President Ferdinand Marcos. Data was gathered about the Agrarian Reform Program in particular through: a) personal interviews with decision makers involved in the Agrarian Reform Program; b) non-participants who observed the program in action; and c) an extensive search of available primary and secondary sources... [ more ]

Leadership Behaviors in the Killeen Independent School District

Gerald R. Simmons, Sr.

This cross-sectional survey study is based on the assertion that transformational leadership is a pattern of behaviors to be used in given situations. However, the current body of knowledge has led leaders to equate transformational leadership with other models and to believe that becoming a transformational leader is a sequential process. This study seeks to determine how leaders in the Killeen Independent School District (KISD) construe an ideal transformational leader and how these leaders view themselves compared to an ideal transformational leader... [ more ]

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