The Traits of a Leader: A Comparison of Traditional Leadership and Servant Leadership in a Police Organization

Based on your original definition of leadership, the assigned readings, and any other related readings, what are some of the major traits of a leader? Study servant leadership. What are the major traits of servant leadership? INSTRUCTIONS For this research paper, do the following: • Specifically compare and contrast the major traits of a leader (as outlined in Wexler, Wycoff, & Fischer: Good to Great Policing: Application of Business Management Principles in the Public Sector, Collins: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t, and Meese & Ortmeier: Leadership, Ethics, and Policing: Challenges for the 21st Century) with the traits of servant leadership. • What would it look like to bring the notion of servant leadership to a police organization? • Would this change require a cultural change? • What would be the benefits and pitfalls of servant leadership in a police organization? • Outline a brief plan of implementing the change necessary to apply the ideas of servant leadership in a police organization.