Practicing Servant Leadership

Dirk van Dierendonck is Professor of Human Resource Management and Dean of Faculty at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Additionally he is the Academic Director of the Erasmus Centre for Human Resource Excellence. Dirk has written numerous books, book chapters and scholarly articles in major academic journals. With Kathleen Patterson he is the co-author of Servant Leadership: Developments in Theory and Research, published by Palgrave Macmillan.Kathleen Patterson serves as Professor and Director of the Doctor of Strategic Leadership program in the School of Business & Leadership at Regent University, USA. She is noted as an expert on servant leadership, and has co-coordinated three Global Servant Leadership Research Roundtables, in the Netherlands, Australia, and Iceland.

• 1. Introduction; Dirk van Dierendonck and Kathleen Patterson.- Part I. Positioning Servant Leadership.- 2. Wisdom as a Pillar for Servant Leadership; Don M. Frick.- 3. Leader Purposefulness and Servant Leadership; Justin A. Irving.- 4. Maintaining your Stance: History Reveals the Cost to Servant Leaders; Carolyn Crippen.- Part II. Becoming the Servant Leader.- 5. The Motivation to Serve as a Cornerstone of Servant Leadership; Peter Sun.- 6. Self-Reflection and Wonder as Keys to Personal Growth and Servant Leadership; Johan van t'Zet.- 7. Mindfulness as a Building Block for Servant Leadership; Armin Pircher Verdorfer and Johannes Arendt.- Part III. Building a Servant Leadership Culture.- 8. Practicing Compassion and Building Spirals of Inspiration in Business and in the Public Sector; Jari J. Hakanen and Anne Birgitta Pessi.- 9. A Conceptual Framework to Operationalize Servant Leadership within an Organization; Michiel Frederick Coetzer.- 10. Building a Servant-Led and People Oriented Organization; Dirk van Dierendonck.- 11. Building Real Organizations: Reinventing Organizations with Servant Leadership; Robert Jack.- Part IV. Towards a Servant Leadership Society.- 12. The Servant Leadership Pin: Bursting the Generational Bubble; Jane Waddell and Kathleen Patterson.- 13. Incorporating Organizational Ambidexterity in the Public Sector through Servant Leadership; Miguel Pinto Luz and Milton Sousa.- 14. Improving Health Care Organizations through Servant Leadership; Sigrún Gunnarsdóttir, Kasper Edwards and Lotta Dellve.