The Office of Servant-Leadership seeks to promote a dynamic Servant-Leadership model throughout the MSOE community. We believe that Servant-Leadership provides the best standard for dealing with the changing nature of work, social relationships, and community development in an increasingly complex and globalized world. The Office of Servant-Leadership is working to create opportunities for students who “aspire to be principled, innovative and socially conscious contributors to a caring and civil society.”
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For the purposes of establishing benchmarks for objective, quantitative analysis, the Pieper Family Endowed Chair for Servant-Leadership defines this complicated construct as follows:
Leadership: We believe that leadership is exemplifying the qualities of moral character that enables one to inspire and improve others. Furthermore, we believe that leadership is not a position, but a process.
Servant-Leadership: We believe that Servant-Leadership means leadership whose primary purpose is to serve others by investing in their development and well-being while jointly accomplishing tasks and goals that facilitate the common good.
Therefore, we believe that leadership begins from within the individual person. It is character in action. Servant-Leaders have a fundamental commitment to serving others with integrity and humility while encouraging excellence and growth in those whom they lead. They are leaders of vision that pursue their vision from a foundation of humility, empathy, compassion, and the highest standards of ethical behavior.
Planting Servant-Leadership: We believe that Servant-Leadership is best taught by example. We agree with Stephen Covey: “If you really want to get servant-leadership, then you’ve got to have institutionalization of the principles at the organizational level and foster trust through individual character and competence at the personal level. Once you have trust, then you lead people by coaching, empowerment, persuasion, example, and modeling. That is servant-leadership.”
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