Proposal to Enhance USMC Cultural Change with Servant Leadership
Abstract
The Marine Corps is striving to achieve an organizational culture change that promotes sound moral and ethical behavior, encourages innovation, and develops resiliency throughout the ranks. Current leadership training in the Marine Corps does not help the Marine Corps achieve its goal of culture change because ongoing Marine Corps leadership training focuses only on the hard skills and traits required of a warfighting organization while neglecting the soft skill traits required of an effective 21st-century leader. Integrating a servant leadership perspective into the current enlisted leadership training and development process would provide the necessary attributes to influence the cognitive shift required for the Marine Corps to achieve its goal of culture change. This paper analyzes the enlisted leadership development process and argues that the inadequacies in the current curriculum can be met by integrating the servant leadership philosophy. This paper provides recommendations to amend the Marine Corps current fourteen leadership traits, incorporate the servant leadership philosophy into current formal curriculum courses, and measure the effectiveness of the servant leadership philosophy, ultimately influencing culture change in the Marine Corps.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 05, 2019
- Accession Number
- AD1177387
Entities
People
- Jeremy M. Sapp
Organizations
- Marine Corps University