Based on your original definition of leadership, the assigned readings, and any other related readings, what are some of the major traits of a leader? Study servant leadership. What are the major traits of servant leadership?
INSTRUCTIONS
For this research paper, do the following:
• Specifically compare and contrast the major traits of a leader (as outlined in Wexler, Wycoff, & Fischer: Good to Great Policing: Application of Business Management Principles in the Public Sector, Collins: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t, and Meese & Ortmeier: Leadership, Ethics, and Policing: Challenges for the 21st Century) with the traits of servant leadership.
• What would it look like to bring the notion of servant leadership to a police organization?
• Would this change require a cultural change?
• What would be the benefits and pitfalls of servant leadership in a police organization?
• Outline a brief plan of implementing the change necessary to apply the ideas of servant leadership in a police organization.
