Conflicting prescriptions for ‘ethical’ leadership in complex institutions: Perspectives from US collegiate athletic administrators

Leadership ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 368-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calvin Nite ◽  
Trevor Bopp
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Ethical Leadership ◽  
College Athletics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Athletic Administrators ◽  
Institutional Logic ◽  
Institutional Complexity ◽  
Ethical Frameworks ◽  
Ethical Leader

This research sought to demonstrate how institutional complexity within the field of college athletics in the United States offers conflicting prescriptions for ethical leadership. With college athletics serving as the context for this investigation, data were collected from 14 athletic administrators at four universities. Participants suggested that ethical leadership in college athletics consisted of prioritizing the institution while integrating servant leadership. We discussed how these two logics are conceptually incompatible, thereby creating conflicting perspectives as to what it meant to be an ethical leader. By incorporating an institutional logic perspective, we demonstrated that conceptions of ethical leadership are subjected to engrained ideals that may not always be compatible as they lend themselves to differing ethical frameworks. The contextual implications as well as the broader discipline implications of this research are discussed.

A Cross-Cultural Measure of Servant Leadership Behaviors

2013 ◽  
pp. 152-163
Author(s):  
Jeff R. Hale ◽  
Dail Fields
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Validity Evidence ◽  
Key Dimensions ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cultural Measure

This chapter presents items comprising three scales that measure servant leadership using three key dimensions: service, humility, and vision. The instrument was used to measure servant leadership behaviors experienced by followers in the United States and Ghana. Reliability and validity evidence is included from two research studies. A discussion of the relationship of servant leadership behaviors with employee outcomes assessed in these studies concludes the chapter.

scholarly journals Charismatic, Transformational, and Servant Leadership in the United States, Mexico, and Croatia

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Suzana Dobric Veiss
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Effective Leadership ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
The United States ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Leadership Theories ◽  
Cultural Leadership ◽  
Globe Study ◽  
United States Mexico

<p>Cross-cultural leadership attempts to understand how leaders function in a highly globalized market.  Certain dimensions of the three leadership theories: charismatic, transformational, and servant were endorsed as important for effective leadership. Major aspects of the leadership theories were compared and contrasted in three different cultures.  The cultures were selected by utilizing the GLOBE study: Anglo cluster with focus on the United States, Latin America cluster with focus on Mexico, and Eastern European cluster with focus on Croatia. While certain aspects of charismatic, transformational, and servant leadership were endorsed as important for effective leadership, only certain dimensions were endorsed across the three cultures studied.  Analysis of Croatia, not available in the original GLOBE study, provides a more comprehensive evaluation of leadership in the region, especially since Croatia has recently emerged as the latest country joining the European Union.  </p>

College Athletics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren K. Zola
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Athletes ◽  
College Athletics ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Membership Association

The intersection of law and college athletics is unique given the role that the NCAA, a private membership association, plays in defining amateurism in the United States. In the twenty-first century, college athletics has evolved into a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry. Yet, as the revenue to college athletics skyrockets—primarily as a result of exploding media broadcast rights fees—compensation to the labor that produces the demand for this product, the college athletes, remains restricted. Increasingly, lawsuits challenge the NCAA’s efforts to protect its version of amateurism. As a result of the growing tension between ideology and commercialism, it is abundantly clear that change is coming to the landscape of college athletics.

Methods, Interpretation, and Ethics in the Study of White Supremacist Perpetrators

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen M. Blee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Net Benefit ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
Categorical Analysis ◽  
Ethical Frameworks ◽  
Politically Motivated Violence

Interpretive and ethical frameworks circumscribe how we study the perpetrators of politically motivated violence against civilian populations. This article revisits the author’s studies of two eras of white supremacism in the United States, the 1920s and 1980s–1990s, to examine how these were affected by four frameworks of inquiry: the assumption of agency, the allure of the extraordinary, the tendency to categorical analysis, and the presumption of net benefit. It concludes with suggestions on how scholars can avoid the limitations of these frameworks.

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