Tyree Mitchell is currently a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the Industrial/Organizational psychology program at DePaul University. Beginning in the fall of 2016, Tyree will be starting a new academic position as an assistant professor at Louisiana State University, specifically within the School of Human Resource Education and Workforce Development (SHREWD). His primary research interests are in organizational leadership and work teams.
This research will examine the effects of several individual differences (core self-evaluation [CSE], emotional intelligence [EL], extraversion and agreeableness) and their interactive effects (EL and agreeableness, CSE and agreeableness) on servant leadership behaviors. Further, need for affiliation is hypothesized to mediate the agreeableness-servant leadership relationship and need for power is hypothesized to mediate the extraversion-servant leadership relationship. Data will be collected from managers and subordinates from two different organizations. This research also attempts to provide additional construct validity evidence for servant leadership behavior by examining the differing effects of these antecedents on related leadership behaviors (transformational and ethical leadership).