Complementing Traditional Leadership

Reviewing AFRICAN TRADITIONAL LEADERSHIP ROLES

Traditional Leadership, Democracy and Social Equality in Africa: the Role of Traditional Leadership in Emboldening Social Equality in South Africa

In the recent years in South Africa as elsewhere in Africa, the debate on the legitimate authority to foster democracy, community development and social equality has taken centre stage. Some scholars have argued that modern governments are the rightful authorities while others argue for traditional institutions such as traditional leadership. In this paper, we go beyond either party’s position ...

Relations and effects of transformational leadership: a comparative analysis with traditional leadership styles.

This study has two main goals: (a) to compare the relationship between transformational leadership and other important leadership styles (i.e., democratic versus autocratic or relations- and task-oriented leadership) and (b) to compare the effects of transformational leadership and the other styles on some important organizational outcomes such as employees' satisfaction and performance. For th...

Complementing regeneration

Complement proteins and complement activation products with effector functions include complement opsonins (C1q, MBL, and C3d), anaphylatoxins (C3a and C5a), and the membrane attack complex (MAC). The complement system also comprises a variety of cellbound and soluble complement regulatory proteins that act on different activation pathways or at different steps in the cascade, and which prevent...

Complementing predictive coding

Clark (in press) discusses virtues of the neurocomputational perspective of predictive coding1, as well as evidential, conceptual, and methodological limits. I expand on some such methodological limits by asking: (1) “Are processes of reducing informational surprise limited to biological brains?” and (2) “Can some hyperpriors be culturally contingent?” My goal is not to make any specific theore...