Contribution to Book
A Remedy to Improving the Culture in Higher Education:Toxic Leadership to Servant Leadership
Confronting Academic Mobbing in Higher Education: Personal Accounts and Administrative Action
(2020)
Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to examine how servant-centered leadership should align with the values of higher education institutions than other forms of leadership. Servant leadership follows a value system, ethical philosophy, rather than a standard set of leadership practices. This chapter explores adult education and leadership-power philosophies, the historical perspective of leadership and management, followed by literature of servant leadership and toxic leadership. In addition, crises of higher education was discussed as well as the need to remedy a toxic culture toward servant-centered environment and that institutions of higher education must be the proactive educators. The researchers concluded that in order for an academic institution to thrive, the utilization and implementation of servant-centered leadership is paramount. It is also equally critical to teach students the philosophy of servant leadership so they in turn can give back to their communities.
Keywords
- Servant Leadership,
- Higher Education,
- Adult Education,
- Leadership and Management,
- Power,
- Influence,
- Control,
- Toxic Leadership,
- Graduate Courses
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall 2020
Editor
Caroline Crawford
Publisher
IGI Global
Citation Information
David B. Ross, Rande W. Matteson, Melissa Tara Sasso and Gina Peyton. "A Remedy to Improving the Culture in Higher Education:Toxic Leadership to Servant Leadership" HersheyConfronting Academic Mobbing in Higher Education: Personal Accounts and Administrative Action (2020) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/melissa-sasso/11/