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- Title
Reconciling Culturalist and Rationalist Approaches: Leadership in the United States and Turkey.
- Authors
Marcoulides, George A.; Yavas, Burhan F.; Bilgin, Zeynep; Gibson, Cristina B.
- Abstract
The article presents an empirical investigation of invariance and discriminant validity of a leadership model across two very divergent cultures: the U.S. and Turkey. The topic of leadership has received considerable attention in the literature for many years. Although discussions related to leadership date back to both Greek and Latin classics and writings of ancient Chinese philosophers, there has been no consensus concerning what constitutes leadership. For example, leadership has been defined in terms of individual personality traits, leader behaviors, responses to leader behaviors, interpersonal exchange relationships, task goals, follower perceptions, organizational culture and nature of work processes. The past two decades have witnessed the rise of many new leadership theories with particular focus on how leaders impact structure, culture and performance within organizations. Recently, a "cultural contingency" approach to leadership and organizational behavior has attempted to extend the transformational leadership approach by focusing on values and beliefs of followers often associated with national culture.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TURKEY; LEADERSHIP; EXECUTIVE ability (Management); CONTINGENCY theory (Management); ORGANIZATIONAL behavior; DISCRIMINANT analysis
- Publication
Thunderbird International Business Review, 1998, Vol 40, Issue 6, p563
- ISSN
1096-4762
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/(SICI)1520-6874(199811/12)40:6<563::AID-TIE4>3.0.CO;2-M