RUI: Antecedents of Servant Leadership Experiences for Underrepresented Students

RUI：代表性不足的学生的仆人式领导经历的前身

• 批准号: 2052245
• 负责人: Laura Lakusta
• 金额: $ 47.41万
• 依托单位: Montclair State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2052245&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; Antecedents; Servant; Leadership; Experiences

This project will investigate the cognitive and developmental antecedents of servant leadership. The benefits of leading by serving the needs of others are well-known, especially in the context of organizational leadership. Yet, few studies have investigated predictors of servant leadership and none have investigated how leaders develop to think and behave in ways that create a cycle of servant leadership. Motivated by state-of-the-art leadership and cognitive psychology theories, this project will systematically investigate the antecedents of servant leadership. The project integrates established measures from organizational and cognitive psychology and tests how the following relate to one’s practice as a servant leader: (1) Theory of Mind (i.e. one’s understanding of the thoughts, emotions, and intentions of another), (2) ability to recognize (i.e., perceive and categorize) the essential characteristics of servant leadership, and (3) specific first-hand experience in serving and/or leading. This project will examine the nature of experiences that influence these factors. Specific aims include studying how Theory of Mind and leadership recognition affect leadership development to advance knowledge about how such cognitive and social processes interact and systematically capturing the antecedents of servant leader development to inform the practice of organizational servant leadership development, by clarifying how components of cognition, and specific experiences, play a role in leadership emergence. The proposed research is interdisciplinary, integrating cognitive and organizational psychology, building a bridge between areas of psychology that have traditionally been studied separately. This project promotes the involvement of a diverse set of students from underrepresented groups. Undergraduate students will be mentored through all aspects of the research by two faculty PIs (each with a different area of expertise – I/O and Cognitive Psychology), as well as a Faculty Associate (who has expertise in Human Development - character analysis, positive youth development, longitudinal design, and pathway modeling), thus offering students a unique exposure to interdisciplinary scientific research, with the goal of instilling in them an appreciation for scientific discovery. Data collection will involve a series of survey and other measures administered longitudinally to participants in the Benne Leadership program both during and after college graduation.This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个项目将调查仆人式领导的认知和发展的前因。通过满足他人的需求来领导的好处是众所周知的，特别是在组织领导的背景下。然而，很少有研究调查了仆人式领导的预测因素，也没有研究过领导者是如何发展到以创造仆人式领导循环的方式思考和行为的。本研究以最新的领导理论和认知心理学理论为基础，系统地探讨仆人式领导的影响因素。 该项目整合了组织和认知心理学的既定措施，并测试了以下内容与一个人作为仆人式领导者的实践之间的关系：（1）心理理论（即一个人对另一个人的思想，情感和意图的理解），（2）识别能力（即，感知和分类）仆人式领导的基本特征，以及（3）服务和/或领导的具体第一手经验。本项目将研究影响这些因素的经验的性质。具体目标包括研究心理理论和领导力认知如何影响领导力发展，以推进有关此类认知和社会过程如何互动的知识，并系统地捕捉仆人式领导力发展的先决条件，通过澄清认知的组成部分如何为组织仆人式领导力发展的实践提供信息，以及具体的经验，在领导力的出现中发挥作用。拟议的研究是跨学科的，整合了认知和组织心理学，在传统上分别研究的心理学领域之间建立了桥梁。该项目促进了代表性不足群体的各类学生的参与。本科生将由两名教师PI指导研究的各个方面（每个人都有不同的专业领域- I/O和认知心理学），以及一名教职员（谁在人类发展的专业知识-性格分析，积极的青年发展，纵向设计，和路径建模），从而为学生提供了一个独特的接触跨学科的科学研究，目的是向他们灌输对科学发现的欣赏。数据收集将涉及一系列调查和其他措施，在大学毕业期间和毕业后对Benne领导力计划的参与者进行纵向管理。该奖项的全部或部分资金来自2021年美国救援计划法案（第117-2页）该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值进行评估，更广泛的影响审查标准。