Leadership is a universal phenomenon; 2 however, how it is practised varies around the world. Leadership in health care is widely recognized as a requirement of professionals working in evolving and complex health care systems so that they can make sustainable changes and provide effective and efficient care. 3 We know that in physiotherapy (PT), leadership is necessary to respond to emerging h...

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...

Purpose – This paper seeks to examine whether cultural context facilitates the emergence of different leadership styles. The key objective of the paper is to consider whether leadership styles are culturally-linked and/or culturally-biased. Design/methodology/approach – A multifactor leadership questionnaire was utilised to measure differences in leadership styles and to offer explanations as t...

Leadership theories have evolved from a focus on traits, to behaviors, to contingency theories, to more contemporary approaches including servant leadership theory. This paper provides an overview of the principles of servant leadership and identifies characteristics displayed by servant leaders in the workplace, with special emphasis on the importance of empowerment in defining a servant-leade...

Today’s business world is fast-paced, and successful organizations must innovate, especially as technologies become ever more crucial to securing market success. Research in the fields of leadership and organization design illustrates that innovativeness is a competency advanced by particular kinds of leadership and through specific organization designs. Similarly, research displays how cultura...

recent developments in leadership theory have shifted interest from earlier theories of charismatic leadership, that viewed the leader as extraordinary and the followers as dependent on the leader, to neo-charismatic theories and transformational leadership theory, which are concerned with the development and empowerment of the followers to function independently .because of the increasing noti...

This study examines the strength and direction of relationships between the self and social dimensions of both emotional and cultural intelligences and transformational leadership skills. Data was gathered from 171 students enrolled at Les Roches International School of Hotel Management in Switzerland. Statistical analyses included factor analysis, Cronbach’s Alpha, Pearson’ r, and regression. ...

It is almost cliché to say that there has been an explosion in the amount of research on leadership in a cross-cultural context. In this review, we describe major advances and emerging patterns in this research domain over the last several years. Our starting point for this update is roughly 1996–1997, since those are the dates of two important reviews of the cross-cultural leadership literatur...

GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness) is a research program focusing on culture and leadership in 61 nations. National cultures are examined in terms of nine dimensions: performance orientation, future orientation, assertiveness, power distance, humane orientation, institutional collectivism, in-group collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, and gender egalitarianism. ...