Althea Linda Wasson, RN, BSN

The University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing

In partial fulfillment of the requirements of

N5311 Nursing Management In Health Care Environment

Stephanee Thurman, MSN, RN

Leadership is the use of relational skills to inspire other people’s thoughts, principles, actions, and outlooks to achieve a certain objective

(Curtis, de Vries, & Sheerin, 2011; Gibson, et al, 2012)

Robert Greenleaf (1977)Ancient philosophies and Christian beliefs

Serving one anotherTen Servant Leadership Characteristics

(http://www.greenleaf.org/aboutus/history.html; Smith, 2005))

Barbuto-Wheeler Servant Leadership Questionnaire

Assesses Servant Leadership characteristics

Cronbach’s alpha coefficient 0.68 to 0.87

(Garber, et al, 2009; Smith, 2005)

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Empowers and encourages Serves others and celebrates successes

Appreciates and cherishes Satisfies the need to help others

Promote needs of the team

(Mahon, 2011; Waterman, 2011)

It is all about:Serving

EncouragingGrowing

Atmosphere that promotes open involvement and collective resolution.

Promotes a well rounded employee

Encourages work-life balance

(www.brighthub.com)

Perceived as soft or weak leaders

Too much power to employees

Unsuitable in aggressive work place

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Positive work environment

Encourages and edifiesProvides tools

Shared governanceAutonomyDemocratic leadership

(Clark, 2009)

ConsistencyTransparencyUnderstandingAvailabilityHelpfulness

(Mahon, 2011)

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Clark, C.C. (2009). Creative nursing leadership & management. Sudbury, Massachusetts: Jones

and Bartlett.Curtis, E. A., de Vries, J., & Sheerin, F. K.

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Gibson, J. L., Ivancevich, J. M., Donnelly, Jr., J. H., & Konopaske, R. (2012). Organizations:

Behavior, structure, processes. (14th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Irwin.

Mahon, K. (2011). In praise of servant leadership -- horizontal service to others. Dynamics,

22(4), 5-6. http://www.caccn.ca/en/publications/dynamics/index.html

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