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" Exploring the Lived Experiences of Servant Leaders who Model Altruism to Motivate Young Adult Protégés for Altruistic Service in a Nonprofit Humanitarian Organization: A Phenomenological Study "
Eledan, Israel O.
Pittman, Joyce
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1053308
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TL52425
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Eledan, Israel O.
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Exploring the Lived Experiences of Servant Leaders who Model Altruism to Motivate Young Adult Protégés for Altruistic Service in a Nonprofit Humanitarian Organization: A Phenomenological Study\ Eledan, Israel O.Pittman, Joyce
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Drexel University
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2020
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Ed.D.
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2020
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129 p.
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This study explored the lived experiences of altruistic servant leaders who practice selfless service; it sought to understand how servant leadership and altruism shape and transform young adult protégés to become emerging leaders who embrace altruistic service as a calling. This research focused on the difficulty that the humanitarian segment of the nonprofits sector is facing in attracting, recruiting, and retaining young adults who are altruistic as part of their workforce. A phenomenological approach was used to identify and understand the psychological essences, pattern, and structure of the lived experiences of the study participants. Semi-structured interview questions were developed to explore the individual participant’s deep and lived meaning of altruistic love and captured the thick and rich description of the issues explored. Three distinct results, which were the major themes that emerged from the study, were significant ideas that synthesized findings and were congruous to the concept and purpose of this study: (a) providing leadership for protégés, (b) mentoring protégés for transformation, and (c) facilitating learning experiences for protégés. The results from this study informed the recommendations for leader-mentors to possess altruistic love as a virtue and demonstrate selflessness in serving others as a lifestyle. It is also recommended for them to deploy the strategy of need-based selfless service to protégés for the building of mutual trust, then making the protégés have a sense of belonging by allowing them to be involved as partners in their own mentoring and development program. Furthermore, the engagement of protégés in ongoing dialogue that can shift their meaning perspectives is recommended. Creating the opportunities for protégés to be involved in community service that will facilitate learning experiences, self-reflection, and self-discovery, which will enable them to connect with altruistic service as a calling is part of the recommendations. Therefore, this study provided some potential solutions for solving the research problems.
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Educational leadership
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Pittman, Joyce
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Drexel University
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