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Ethical Foundations of Servant-Leadership Practice

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Servant Leadership

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  • Jae Webb

    (University of North Texas)

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This chapter explores foundational elements of ethics and servant-leadership to highlight and explicate the strength of the relationship between the two practices. In an exploration of moral character, as promoted within virtue ethics, and discussion of the traits and nature of servant-leaders, a natural fit between the two emerges. While both ethics and servant-leadership are concerned with actions and behaviors, the foundational elements relate not to doing certain things but to being a certain way. Both constructs call for the development of a specific character in the self, yet it is a character not for the self but for the benefit and well-being of others. Without asserting only servant-leaders are ethical, a case is made that servant-leadership is an innately ethical practice.

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  • Jae Webb, 2023. "Ethical Foundations of Servant-Leadership Practice," Springer Books, in: Gary E. Roberts (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Servant Leadership, chapter 27, pages 651-675, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-01323-2_35
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-01323-2_35
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