Date
12-19-2023
Department
Rawlings School of Divinity
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Chair
Daniel P. Moosbrugger
Keywords
calling, inherent, law enforcement, natural feeling, policing, servant-leader, servant-leadership, vocation
Disciplines
Educational Leadership | Leadership Studies
Recommended Citation
Suggs, Louden S.B., "A Quantitative Analysis of Servant-Leadership Characteristics Among Those Called to Serve and Protect" (2023). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 5123.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/5123
Abstract
The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to determine if servant-leader characteristics were common among recruits enrolled in basic law enforcement training programs in North Carolina Community Colleges and the relationship between recruit commitment to preserving public safety and public order and the call or natural feeling to serve others. This study explored whether law enforcement recruits inherently possessed servant-leader characteristics defined by Greenleaf and Spears (1998, 2002) and described in Matthew and Mark. One hundred eleven law enforcement recruits, both men and women, from various demographic backgrounds actively enrolled in 22 North Carolina Community College System’s Basic Law Enforcement Training programs participated in this study. Data was collected using a cross-sectional 6-Question Demographic and Information Questionnaire (identifying age, gender, race, religion, and other factors) and the Servant Leadership (self-reporting) Profile- Revised (SLP-R) to measure servant-leader characteristics common among law enforcement recruits. Descriptive/frequency analysis and the Kruskal-Wallis (1952) non-parametric analysis of variance were used to quantify the relationship (determine differences) between participants' commitment to serve and protect others and to identify servant-leader characteristics.
