Daniel I. Watts

ORCID: 0000-0002-4092-7359
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Research Areas
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Ethics in Business and Education
  • Organizational Leadership and Management Strategies
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Management Theory and Practice
  • Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Organizational Learning and Leadership
  • Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering

Georgia State University
2020-2024

Georgia Institute of Technology
2016

Abstract Servant leadership's unique focus on care and concern for multiple stakeholders has caught the attention of academic practitioners alike. Its theoretical novelty, however, remains underutilized as a means to contribute insights leadership literature. We draw servant moral foundation—utilitarian consequentialism—and social learning theory identify cognitive mechanisms (follower other‐orientation reflection) through which affects employee behavior benefiting two stakeholder groups:...

10.1111/peps.12605 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Personnel Psychology 2023-06-01

Like other forms of moral leadership, research on servant leadership tends to lean attitudinal and motivational outcomes, raises questions as whether a focus morality others is compatible with financial organizational sustainability. To examine these issues, we integrate theory motivated information processing via their mutual reliance the idea other-orientation. We hypothesize that grows follower other-orientation, which in turn impacts framing depth – cognitive reflection used by followers...

10.5465/ambpp.2020.244 article EN Academy of Management Proceedings 2020-07-29

Servant leadership, which prioritizes the interests of followers and other shareholders, is considered as a unique approach that offers much potential to enrich our understanding leadership. Despite robust findings on how servant leaders motivate their teams employees achieve better performance outcomes, what less often research focus are questions motivates demonstrate leadership encourage followers’ serving, prosocial behaviors benefit people within outside organizations. To extend...

10.5465/ambpp.2020.11995symposium article EN Academy of Management Proceedings 2020-07-29

Servant leadership focuses on stakeholder concern and follower development empowerment. It has begun to emerge as a useful perspective of within academic research, but theoretical remains limited, boundary conditions are unexamined, some its key propositions have not been tested. Drawing the extant servant literature, social learning perspective, research gender roles schemas, we propose theory how impacts two characteristics followers (prosocial motivation psychological capital) affect...

10.5465/ambpp.2016.283 article EN Academy of Management Proceedings 2016-01-01
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