This reference work offers comprehensive perspectives on servant leadership. Featuring a cadre of leading world-class scholars, practitioners, and contributing authors from diverse fields of inquiry, it aims to collate research on servant leadership with a particular focus on its moral and spiritual dimensions.It is divided into sections that center on topics such as character, philosophical influences, diversity and inclusion, critiques of servant leadership as well as examples of servant leadersThough first introduced in the 1970 by Robert Greenleaf, the field of servant leadership is still lacking consensus on a definition and a theoretical framework. The goal of this reference work is to begin to fill this gap by assembling the scholarship of the top scholars in this field and providing a go-to source for information on the theory and practice of servant leadership. This handbook will serve as an essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students of organizational behavior, human resource management, and business ethics, as well as consultants and business leaders interested in discovering the best leadership models to suit contemporary organizations.

Satinder K. Dhiman, PH.D., ED.D., MBA, MCOM (Gold-Medalist) Scholar Author Associate Dean Chair & Director, MBA Accreditation Evaluator Wellbeing Consultant Professor Professor of Management at Woodbury University, Burbank, California, Dr. Dhiman serves as the Associate Dean, Chair, and Director of the MBA Program. With an interdisciplinary research agenda encompassing organization behavior, workplace spirituality, workplace wellbeing and fulfillment, sustainability, servant leadership, mindfulness, social entrepreneurship, education, organization development, and Eastern and Western philosophy in leadership, Professor Dhiman holds a PhD in Social Sciences from Tilburg University, the Netherlands, an EdD in Organizational Leadership from Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, an MBA from West Coast University, Los Angeles, and a Master's degree in Commerce from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, having earned the Gold Medal. He has also completed advanced Executive Leadership Programs at Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton. His academic leadership experience includes having served as the Chair for a special MBA Program for the Mercedes-Benz executives, China; as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Guadalajara campus, Mexico; as E-Commerce curriculum lead advisor, Universidad Francisco Gavidia, El Salvador; coordinator for the MBA Student Los Angeles Fieldtrip Program for Berlin University for Professional Studies (DUW); and accreditation mentor to Sustainability Management School (SUMAS), Gland, Switzerland. During December 12-15, 2019, he was invited by Monash University, Australia, to lead a track in Spirituality in Management in the 16th International Conference in Business Management. He has served as the President (2016-2018), (2022-present), and as a distinguished Patron (2019-2021) for the International Chamber for Service Industry (ICSI).Recognized as a strategic thinker for his pioneering contributions to the field of transformational leadership, workplace spirituality, workplace well-being, sustainability, and fulfillment in personal and professional arena, Professor Dhiman is a sought after Keynote speaker at regional, national, and international conferences such as the prestigious TEDx Conference @ College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, California. Since then, he has led several major national and international conferences as co-organizer and/or as track chair.Recipient of several national and international academic and professional honors and awards in teaching, scholarship, and service, Professor Dhiman was awarded the Woodbury University Ambassador of the Year Award in 2015 and 2017 and MBA Professor of the Year Award in 2015; Scholarly and Creative Writing Award, 2019; Most Valuable MBA Professor Award, 2018; Most Inspirational and Most Charismatic MBA Teacher Award 2012, 2013/2014/2018; the Steve Allen Excellence in Education Award in 2006; and the prestigious ACBSP International Teacher of the Year Award in 2004. Most recently, he chaired a symposium at the Academy of Management that received the "2019 Best Symposium Proposal and Showcase Symposium" Award by the MSR DivisionProfessor Dhiman's scholarly accomplishments include over 70 professional conference presentations, over 150 invitations to be a keynote speaker, over 100 online webinars, participation in plenary sessions, conference track chair sessions, leading symposiums and webinars, and scores of distinguished guest lectures and creative workshops - nationally and internationally. He has published over 65 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. As author, translator, editor, co-author, co-editor of over 40 management, leadership, spirituality, sustainability, and accounting-related books and research monographs, his most recent books include: Leadership After COVID-19: Working Together xxvi About the Editor-in-Chief Toward a Sustainable Future (2022 - Spri