Servant leadership component of the Team Learning Foundation¶

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Evidence · 3 claims (3 for) · 1 study (1 associational), q2 · 1 of 1 report an effect size · 3 claims rest on one study

Description¶

Servant leadership is the final component of the Team Learning Foundation, introduced through principles drawn from Hunter (2004). The article states: "Principles of servant leadership involve building community, commitment to the growth of their team members, stewardship, foresight, listening, empathy and healing, and foresight are introduced and discussed." The component helps students in leadership roles see themselves as responsible for teammates' growth rather than directing activities in an authoritarian way.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Class discussion introducing the servant leadership principles within the Team Learning Foundation curriculum

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• Undergraduate students taking turns in team leadership roles

Target Learning Goals¶

• Leadership as responsibility for team members' growth
• Community building and empathy

Affordances¶

• 360 Team Learning Foundation Platform

Claims¶

• Servant leadership exhibits complementary partial mediation via self-efficacy, whereas transformational leadership shows a small indirect-only effect [+W]
• Both transformational and servant leadership are negatively associated with workplace harassment among university teachers [+W]
• Servant leadership shows the strongest effect on teacher self-efficacy, which in turn predicts life satisfaction [+W]

Related Elements¶

• Collaborative Way teaming model (Fickett and Fickett)
• DISC and StrengthsFinder 2.0 behavioral self-assessments for team self-understanding

Examples¶

• Gender-responsive leadership development: promote servant leadership universally and deploy transformational practices for their harassment-preventive value to female faculty

Key Sources¶

• Breitkreuz, K. R. & Songer, A. (2022). The Foundation for Interdisciplinary Team Learning in the 360 Degree Global Ed Model. Proceedings of IConSES 2022, ISTES Organization. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED631179