Healthy Leadership: Qualitative Research Towards Theory and Scale Development

Abstract

In this research, the authors detail a qualitative study where healthy leadership is presented as the antithesis of toxic leadership having been discovered through Jesus’ interaction with the Pharisees in Matthew 23:1-7. Data was collected from 18 individual interviews, and the analysis rendered 67 specific coding results associated with 6 healthy leadership dimensions. A future quantitative study is proposed to develop an instrument measuring healthy leadership entitled the Healthy Leadership Scale.