The authors of this paper compared ratings for leadership competences of managers in the healthcare sector and professional managers in Slovenia. Managers’ competence scores were analyzed for Slovenia and compared with some other EU countries. Comparisons of correlations yielded significant differences in leader/non-leader healthcare professionals in their relational competences. Cross-cultural...

This study extends Patterson’s (2003) servant leadership theory in a cross-cultural context by exploring the viability and acceptability of the theory’s constructs of love, humility, altruism, vision, trust, empowerment, and service in the Caribbean, specifically Jamaica. Using case study design, a qualitative in-depth interview was conducted with an exemplary leader in the Jamaican society to ...

Despite the tremendous gains nurse leaders have made in shaping the environment of care, an observable, dysfunctional dynamic resulting in organizational fatigue threatens the sustainability of those gains. At its peak, this dynamic cascades through all levels of nursing leadership, causing exhaustion, diminished decision making, and reluctance by nurses to assume formal leadership roles. In th...

This paper responds to calls for pragmatic context-dependent crosscultural scholarship. Specifically, with regard to global organisations, we attempt to reconcile the imbalance between global and local concerns by proposing a framework that merges a new understanding of culture with a classical leadership approach. The objective is to achieve more effective crosscultural practice. The article m...

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...