The past two decades have witnessed the People’s Republic of China (China) experiencing fundamental transformation in every aspect of its societal life, including the transition of economic system from being rigid and centrally planned to free market driven, the transition of domestic enterprises from being government controlled production units to independent economic entities, the transition ...

The barriers to health care delivery in developing nations are many: underfunding, limited support services, scarce resources, suboptimal health care worker attitudes, and deficient health care policies are some of the challenges. The literature contains little information about health care leadership in developing nations. This discursive paper examines the impact of leadership on the delivery...

Leadership research is often silent about how race and ethnicity influence the exercise of leadership and does not include the experiences of racial/ethnic minority leaders. Leaders from five racial/ethnic groups within the US were surveyed on their endorsement of leadership dimensions as defined by the GLOBE studies and the influence of their race, ethnicity and gender on the exercise of leade...

In the past, the leadership style of Malaysian managers has been different from our Western counterparts due to strong cultural differences. However, with the advent of knowledge economy and the transformation of workforce, leadership style of Malaysian managers is said to be altered. This research explored the current state of leadership style among Malaysian managers and its effect on the per...

Inter-cultural communication apprehension is one of the major factors that may influence the processes of the interorganization collaboration in electronic commerce. It is an obstruction, prohibiting inter-organization collaboration in different ways. If we can manage the inter-cultural communication apprehension properly, we may be able to bring organizations of different cultures together for...

The goal of this study is to examine how educators from both Eastern and Western cultures define ethical leadership which characteristics they associate with leaders. This also explores examples educators, tries answer if major events like Covid-19, high-technology, migration have changed their perceptions, lastly, examines reactions unethical conduct. qualitative employed a phenomenological re...

Positive workplace cultures prioritize employees' health and well-being, encourage respect trust among all, forgive mistakes. They promote employee happiness retention, improve team performance, enhance talent while effective leadership enables engineering managers to capture the full potential of skills knowledge. Previous research demonstrates that happier employees are more engaged productiv...

This article comments on leadership and quality enhancement in Romanian companies from a cultural perspective based on the results of three studies performed by the author related to cultural orientations in Romania. Key cultural orientations (as described by Hall, Hofstede, Schein, and Rosinski) are used to debate leading cultural changes needed most in Romanian organizations in order to effec...