Bruce E. Winston

Bruce Winston has been part of Regent University since 1991, both with the School of Business and the School of Business & Leadership. He led the School of Leadership as dean for one year and led the School of Business & Leadership as dean for seven years. He currently serves as Professor of Business and Leadership and is the director of the Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership program. His research interests include servant leadership, organizational development and transformation, leadership development, distance education, person-environment fit, employee well-being, and technology in higher education.

Publications

Development of the Five-Factor Holistic Ethical Leadership Questionnaire
Development of the Five-Factor Holistic Ethical Leadership Questionnaire
Tariku Fufa Gemechu, Bruce E. Winston. © 2024. 20 pages.
The authors present three studies that develop the five-scale measurement for holistic ethical leadership questionnaire. Study 1 reports the scale development process using...
Handbook of Research on Advancements in Organizational Data Collection and Measurements: Strategies for Addressing Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors
Handbook of Research on Advancements in Organizational Data Collection and Measurements: Strategies for Addressing Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors
Mihai C. Bocarnea, Bruce E. Winston, Debra Dean. © 2021. 400 pages.
Different organizational instruments have been developed and adapted with proven reliability and validity to measure organizational attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. These new...
A Critique of Likert-Response Items in Social Science Research: A Research Note
A Critique of Likert-Response Items in Social Science Research: A Research Note
Bruce E. Winston. © 2021. 8 pages.
This chapter critiques the use of the Likert response items for scale development. Likert response data when as nominal data and analyzed as nominal data is useful for recording...
Development of the Five-Factor Holistic Ethical Leadership Questionnaire
Development of the Five-Factor Holistic Ethical Leadership Questionnaire
Tariku Fufa Gemechu, Bruce E. Winston. © 2021. 20 pages.
The authors present three studies that develop the five-scale measurement for holistic ethical leadership questionnaire. Study 1 reports the scale development process using...
Modified General Employee Well-Being Scale
Modified General Employee Well-Being Scale
Bruce E. Winston. © 2021. 10 pages.
Taylor et al. evaluated Dupuy's general employee well-being measurement instrument and pointed out two concerns: a combination of positive and negative item wording and two...
The Controlled Discipline of Servant Leaders: A Qualitative Study
The Controlled Discipline of Servant Leaders: A Qualitative Study
Maurice A. Buford, Doris Gomez, Kathleen Patterson, Bruce E. Winston. © 2014. 23 pages.
This chapter investigates claims by Johnson (2001) and Bowie (2000) that servant leaders tend not to assert authority. Twenty servant leaders were asked five open-ended questions...
Seven Scales to Measure the Seven Beatitudes in Leaders
Seven Scales to Measure the Seven Beatitudes in Leaders
John Kilroy, Corné L. Bekker, Mihai C. Bocarnea, Bruce E. Winston. © 2013. 24 pages.
This study presents seven scales for the seven beatitudes found in Matthew 5: 3-10. Separate scales were created rather than a conceptual instrument with seven factors since the...
An Online Measure of Discernment
An Online Measure of Discernment
Hazel C. V. Traüffer, Corné L. Bekker, Mihai C. Bocarnea, Bruce E. Winston. © 2013. 17 pages.
The Discernment Practices Indicator (DPI) reports three-factors: (a) Courage, (b) Intuition, and (c) Faith with Cronbach alpha values of (a) .85, (b) .89, and (c) .85...