Improving cross-cultural comparability: does school leadership mean the same in different countries?

Cross-cultural leadership development

There has been much debate about the types of leaders needed in tomorrow’s schools and about the optimal forms of leadership preparation. This study examined the applicability of the Boundary-Breaking Leadership Development Model to a cross-cultural travel study programme for Canadian and New Zealand graduate students in educational leadership programmes at two universities. The Canada–New Zeal...

Cross-Cultural Variation in Political Leadership Styles

Guided by gaps in the literature with regard to the study of politicians the aim of the research is to explore cross-cultural differences in political leaders' style. It compares the MLQ (Avolio & Bass, 2004) scores of elected political leaders (N = 140) in Bulgaria and the UK. The statistical exploration of the data relied on multivariate analyses of covariance. The findings of comparisons acr...

Enhancing the Validity and Cross-cultural Comparability of Survey Research1

We offer a new approach to writing survey questions and a new statistical model that together at least partially ameliorate two long-standing problems in survey research. The first is how to measure complicated concepts, such as freedom, health, political efficacy, pornography, etc., that researchers know how to define clearly only with reference to examples. The second problem is when differen...

Improving School Leadership: Rationale and Plans for the Activity

Leadership in Aotearoa New Zealand: A cross-cultural study

This study investigates the leadership characteristics of New Zealand’s two largest cultural groups, Māori and Pakeha. It examines the extent to which these leadership characteristics are rooted in the unique contexts of each culture. Followers’ perceptions of leadership behaviour were examined using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ). The hypothesis that leadership is deeply rooted...