PSC 410 Emphases of Servant Leadership

PSC 410 Emphases of Servant Leadership

PSC 410 Grand Canyon Week 2 Discussion 1

Review the seven different emphases of servant leadership in chapter 3 of your textbook. Which emphasis was most divergent from your view about servant leadership and which was most convergent? Explain your response.

PSC 410 Grand Canyon Week 2 Discussion 2

You just completed the first topic in your PSC-410 class. You are excited about what you have learned so far. You try to share your excitement with your supervisor and tell him you are taking a servant leadership class. His response is? Servant leadership is overrated. You can?t get any real work done that way, you know. Cuddling people and being a soft leader will not get you very far.? You brush of his remark, but decide to revisit the subject with him later because you believe he has the wrong view about servant leadership. How do you think you would approach your supervisor on the subject? What should you say?

PSC 410 Grand Canyon Week 2 Discussion 3

Sendjaya, in chapter 4 of your textbook, argues that servant leadership is a holistic and multidimensional approach to leading. What does the author mean?

 

PSC 410 Grand Canyon Week 3 Discussion 1

Review the discussion on the concept of service and leadership in four religious traditions. What similarities and differences do you see across the four religious traditions? How has this shaped your thinking about other religious traditions?

PSC 410 Grand Canyon Week 3 Discussion 2

Servant leadership is explored within different cultural contexts in chapter 10 of your textbook. Identify at least two culturally specific variables that impede the adoption of servant leadership within one specific cultural perspective. If you were transferred to that country to work, armed with this knowledge, what would you do differently to bring about a change in perception of servant leadership?

PSC 410 Grand Canyon Week 3 Discussion 3

Arguably, one of the most influential servant leaders of our time has been Nelson Mandela. What characteristics of servant leadership did Mandela display? Do you think they were culturally influenced? Which of these would you have found personally challenging to display if you faced the same conditions that he did? Do you think that challenge is culturally influenced?