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Positive Global Leadership, Carolyn M. Youssef, Fred Luthans
Positive Global Leadership, Carolyn M. Youssef, Fred Luthans
Department of Management: Faculty Publications
In the wake of increasing globalization, today’s organizational leaders are faced with unprecedented complexity. To help meeting the challenge, this article proposes a new positive approach to global leadership. After first providing the background on positivity, positive global leadership is carefully defined and its similarities and differences with both the established and contemporary leadership theories are noted. The discussion then turns to how positive global leadership addresses three major challenges in the global context of distance, cultural differences and cross-cultural barriers. The article concludes that this new positive approach can help global leaders to leverage diverse strengths in themselves and …
Leadership: Current Theories, Research, And Future Directions, Bruce Avolio, Fred Walumbwa, Todd J. Weber
Leadership: Current Theories, Research, And Future Directions, Bruce Avolio, Fred Walumbwa, Todd J. Weber
Department of Management: Faculty Publications
This review examines recent theoretical and empirical developments in the leadership literature, beginning with topics that are currently receiving attention in terms of research, theory, and practice. We begin by examining authentic leadership and its development, followed by work that takes a cognitive science approach. We then examine new-genre leadership theories, complexity leadership, and leadership that is shared, collective, or distributed. We examine the role of relationships through our review of leader member exchange and the emerging work on followership. Finally, we examine work that has been done on substitutes for leadership, servant leadership, spirituality and leadership, cross-cultural leadership, and …