Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 2011

Keywords

leadership, employee selection, career development, succession planning, humility

Abstract

Sacrificial leadership has generally been associated with positive outcomes for organizations and employees. While it is often desired by organizations, we suggest that current organizational systems often fail to promote sacrificial behaviors. We present a new perspective sacrificial leadership that includes character-based elements such as humility, a willingness to calculate the cost of leading and the courage to be irrelevant in the presence of systems that pressure leaders to behave otherwise. We discuss how these elements are often not encouraged in current selection, employee development, and succession planning processes.

Comments

Posted with permission of Organization Development Journal. Author's last name has been corrected to McKenna.

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