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RESEARCH PAPER: SERVANT LEADERSHIP ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
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 Dont, 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.
