What models or methods best promote servant leadership within an organization at the individual level?

Literature Review:
Please select your references carefully. The research report
should include a minimum of 15 referenced publications (enlisted in the list of
references) reflecting an adequate number of peer-reviewed academic articles, chapters,
and professional reports. The literature review should reflect your critical
analysis of existing publications confirming or challenging your research
subject. Every referenced source in the body of the paper should be enlisted in
the list of references. A good literature review is centered around your thesis
and critically reviews the supporting, expanding, or contradicting the theses
of other authors.

Project Title:
The Servant Leadership Impact: Beyond cliches, providing
practical insights for the nonprofit sector.

Project Objective:
The purpose of my project is to explore the effects of
servant leadership through an individual and organizational framework, seeking
to highlight practical implications to help individuals and organizations in the
nonprofit sector. This project will test theories and assumptions from
literature by comparing with data collected, primarily through expert
interviews. I intend to utilize a content analysis, incorporating interview
data. During my research, I expect to find characteristics associated with
servant leadership at the individual and organizational levels. I also expect to
find commonly identified benefits associated with servant leadership being
practiced at the individual and organizational levels.

Relevant Literature: (3 provided – 15 total needed)
Phillips, P., & Ricke-Kiely, T. (2014). SUPERSIZING
PHILANTHROPIC LEADERSHIP: The Case of the Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc
Center. The International Journal of Servant-Leadership, 10(1), 177-191.
https://search.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/supersizing-philanthropic-leadership-case/docview/2220696259/se-2?accountid=14674
In this case study, the authors apply a servant leadership
framework to studying The Salvation Army and examine how small, faith-based
organizations can positively make a difference.

Song, J. (2020). SERVANT FIRST OR SURVIVAL FIRST? HOW
SERVANT-LEADERS LEAD DURING COVID-19. The International Journal of
Servant-Leadership, 14(1), 115-156.
https://search.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/servant-first-survival-how-leaders-lead-during/docview/2472669533/se-2?accountid=14674
Jiying Song’s research examines the importance of corporate
social responsibility (CSR) and leadership during a crisis by associating it
with servant leadership.

Walker, J. (2003). A New Call to Stewardship and Servant Leadership.
Nonprofit World, 21(4), 25.
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=bth&AN=19072357&site=bsi-live&custid=s3818721
Jennifer Walkers’ article tries to explain how nonprofit
organizations can heed the call to servant leadership and stewardship.

Main Research Question:
How can servant leadership make an impact on the nonprofit
sector from an organizational and individual perspective?

Sub Question 1:
What models or methods best promote servant leadership
within an organization at the individual level?

Sub Question 2:
What strategies are effective to foster an organizational
culture of servant leadership?

Hypotheses:

Hypotheses 1:
A nonprofit organization effectively practicing servant
leadership fosters more positive relationships with stakeholders.

Hypotheses 2:
A nonprofit organization with servant leadership mentoring
practices or programs increase participants sense of belonging in their
organization.

Hypotheses 3:
Servant leadership mentoring within a nonprofit organization
improves capacity for succession planning.

Typology:
This project will focus on a comparative analysis of
information collected via a literature review and will incorporate responses
from interviews conducted with experts in the field of servant leadership.

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