These items were subjected to a critical review by three
master students who had extensively studied the literature
on servant leadership as part of their thesis project. They
had to decide to what extent they felt that items reflected
servant leadership—as described in the eight concepts
above—and whether crucial aspects had been overlooked.
Based on their opinions, from the original item pool of 110
items, 20 items were removed, and 9 new items were
added, reaching a total of 99 items. All people in Study 1
responded to these 99 SLS items that were formulated in
this item generation phase.