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Building a legacy of volunteers through servant leadership: A cause-related sporting event

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Linda Parris, Denise, Welty Peachey, Jon·2012·Nonprofit Management and Leadership
DOI 10.1002/nml.21047
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This study explores the leadership style of the founder of a cause‐related sporting event and investigates the effects of this style on motivating volunteers. The National Kidney Foundation Surf Festival, established more than twenty‐five years ago to benefit people with kidney disease, was selected as an extreme case because of the event's longevity and success. Data were collected through semi‐structured personal interviews, document analysis, and personal observation. Results indicated that the founder is a servant leader. Three key themes of servant leadership, and its influence on volunteer motivation, emerged from the data: generating a shared vision dedicated to helping others, building a caring and loving community, and creating the freedom and resources for followers to become servants themselves. Our findings also indicated that the spiritual and moral tenets of servant leadership are applicable to secular nonprofit organizations.

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  • Qualitative servant leadership work has tended to focus on single case studies utilizing interviews, focus groups, secondary data, and observations.

    “The qualitative work on servant leadership has tended to focus on single case studies, utilizing interviews (e.g.Udani & Lorenzo-Molo, 2013), focus groups (e.g.Carter & Baghurst, 2014), secondary data (archival records) (e.g.Parris & Peachey, 2012), and observations (e.g.Ebener & O'Connell, 2010).”

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Authors
Linda Parris, D., & Welty Peachey, J.
Venue
Nonprofit Management and Leadership
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2012-06-25
Volume
23
Issue
2
Pages
259-276
ISSN
  • 1048-6682 (ISSN-L)
  • 1542-7854
DOI
10.1002/nml.21047
OpenAlex
W2082433804
Cited by
61
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8.44
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations
  • Nonprofit Management and Leadership (publishedVersion)
  • SHAREOK (University of Oklahoma; Oklahoma State University; Central Oklahoma University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Leadership and Management in Organizations
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
Keywords
servant leadership, volunteer motivation, nonprofit organizations, shared vision, organizational community, legacy building

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