Prosocial Leadership Development in Organizational Life

  • Timothy Ewest
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Abstract

This chapter seeks to understand the development and presence of prosocial leadership in leaders of small to medium enterprises (SME), endeavoring to determine to what degree the prosocial leadership development model and the identified four-stage model—antecedent awareness and empathic concern; community and group commitment; courage and action; and, finally, reflection and growth—apply to SME leaders. The research on SME leaders of social enterprises produced a fifth stage of development, which emerged with two corresponding subthemes or steps. Specifically, this chapter reviews the components of stage five, then discusses the development process and the nature of the relationship between steps in stage five and in the preceding four stages.

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  • Timothy Ewest
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  1. 1.Houston Baptist UniversityHoustonUSA

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