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Culture, Leadership, and Organization: Embracing the Complexity of Leadership presents a comprehensive analysis of contemporary issues in leadership, people, and management across organizations. This book explores the critical interplay between diverse perspectives, meaningful relationships, and the ever-evolving landscape of global business, highlighting the essential traits and competencies that distinguish exemplary leaders. Through twenty-one detailed chapters contributed by scholars and experts unravels the intricate connections between political influence, leadership styles, and organizational performance, providing valuable insights for navigating complex power structures and interpersonal relationships effectively. This book bridges the gap between theoretical frameworks and practical leadership challenges, offering a fresh perspective on transforming organizations and fostering inclusive, transformational leadership styles that drive unity and success.
List of contents
1. Advances in Cross-Cultural Leadership Research
2. The Essence and Competencies of Leadership: Good, Better, Best
3. Challenges and Promises of People Analytics
4. Cross-Cultural Self-Esteem, Self-Identity and In-Group Favoritism
5. A Collective Autoethnography on the Social and Academic Dissonance
6. Leadership: Building the ARK Before the Flood
7. Exploring the impact of Leadership Styles on Teacher Burnout
8. A Conceptual Framework for Workplace Bullying of Black Female Faculty
9. Cultural dimensions of leadership styles and collective entrepreneurial behavior among entrepreneurs
10. Another look at the Psychology of Leadership, Work Group/Team and Populism
11. Implications of Fiji Island Tourism and Multicultural Complexities
12. Political Skill and Leadership
13. Cultural Impact of Race and Gender at work
14. Talent Management in Cross-cultural Research
15. The Censure of DEI in Education: How Authoritarianism and Maladaptive Cognitive Traits
16. Cultural Aspects of Entrepreneurs'
17. Leadership Styles and Collective Entrepreneurial
18. Cultural Differences in the Perception of Control and intergroup discrimination
19. Investigating Workplace Bullying in the Teaching Profession
20. A Cross-Cultural Systematic Review of Ambivalent Sexism and Workplace Climate
21. Cross-Cultural Leadership and Management Challenges of Public Sector
22. Spiritual Leadership and Leadership Effectiveness
23. Women, Intersectionality and Globalization
24. Workplace Learning and Global HR
25. Leadership in organizations and its impact on sustainability in COVID-19 times
26. More than words? Delving into the Substantive Meaning(s) of "Social Justice"
27. Implications of AI developments on Global research
28. Atlas of Artificial Intelligence
About the author
Adebowale Akande an international social theorist and professor of behavior science in psychology, public affairs education and management. Akande is one of the world’s well-known and respected cross-cultural scientists. An emerging towering figure in social science. As a researcher on SCOPUS, he has been cited numerous times in assorted articles with an H-index of 143/23. On Google scholar, he has been cited 38,650 times in numerous articles with an i10 index of 120 and an H-index of 51. On ResearchGate index 30. Notable for the audacity of his theorizing, and the expansive scope of his global cross-cultural research in international/public affairs. One of the world’s top contributors and very productive transcultural scientist-practitioners- researchers, written or edited numerous books and hundreds of peer-reviewed journal articles/chapters/technical papers; Several reprinted in anthologies and Financial Times-50 list. Has held faculty appointments at several international Universities. Among multiple awards conferred, Akande received the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship, 1992; IUPSYS International Award, 1996; and Frank Andrew University of Michigan, in 1996; ISP Award, 2000; Taiwan Government International Scholar Fellowship 2005;, Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship, 2008; Fellow Schloss Leopoldskron, Austria 2008; Certificate of Honor, Indian IPM Institute, 2008, AME Harvard University Grant, 2016; AAG Award, 2018 .
