caa a22 4500 605482934 CHVBK 20210128100428.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2085-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2085-z Compassionate Love as a Cornerstone of Servant Leadership: An Integration of Previous Theorizing and Research [Elektronische Daten] [Dirk van Dierendonck, Kathleen Patterson] Servant leadership is increasingly gaining interest inside and outside academia. This article builds and extends current theorizing by describing the process that introduces compassionate love as a practical translation for the need to serve, which was positioned by Greenleaf (Servant leadership: a journey into the nature of legitimate power and greatness, Paulist Press, New York, 1977) as the core of servant leadership. This article takes a virtues perspective and shows how servant leadership may encourage a more meaningful and optimal human functioning with a strong sense of community to current-day organizations. In essence, we propose that a leader's propensity for compassionate love will encourage a virtuous attitude in terms of humility, gratitude, forgiveness and altruism. This virtuous attitude will give rise to servant leadership behavior in terms of empowerment, authenticity, stewardship and providing direction. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Servant leadership nationallicence Compassionate love nationallicence Virtues nationallicence Meaningfulness nationallicence Humility nationallicence van Dierendonck Dirk Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut Patterson Kathleen School of Business and Leadership, Regent University, 1333 Regent University Drive, Ste. 102, 23464, Virginia Beach, VA, USA aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 128/1(2015-04-01), 119-131 0167-4544 128:1<119 2015 128 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2085-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2085-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van Dierendonck Dirk Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Patterson Kathleen School of Business and Leadership, Regent University, 1333 Regent University Drive, Ste. 102, 23464, Virginia Beach, VA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 128/1(2015-04-01), 119-131 0167-4544 128:1<119 2015 128 10551