Year: 2018
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This quantitative descriptive statistics research study involved surveying fire and emergency services professionals in order to discover whether servant leadership was experienced, and to what extent, within the profession.The research involved N = 130 professional uniformed and sworn fire and emergency service personnel from seven fire departments within a countywide metro response area in a Western State.Researchers employed the Servant Leadership Assessment Instrument (SLAI) for surveying the participants.The SLAI was developed to measure the 7 virtuous constructs of servant leadership.The findings of the survey seems to demonstrate that the majority of the participants experienced six of the seven constructs of servant leadership throughout the profession: agapao love, altruism, humility, trust, empowerment, and service.The implication of the study's findings relates to changing the culture of the profession by changing leadership education, training, and officer development programs so as to cultivate servant leaders within the career field.The researchers also discuss the study's limitations and identify future research needs.
Language: English
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2805304473