Bruce Winston & Kathleen Patterson
This study addresses the problem of varied definitions of leadership and focuses on the
possibility that as part of the social science tradition, the results of other leadership
definitions focused only on isolated variables. A review of the leadership literature showed
that parsimony may be a problem in understanding leadership. In contrast to parsimony, the
study uncovered over 90 variables that may comprise the whole of leadership. The authors then
proposed an integrative definition of leadership encompassing the 90 plus variables that may
help researchers and practitioners to more fully understand the breadth and scope of leadership.
As more research uncovers new insights into leadership, this integrative definition will need
to be upgraded, and as well, this integrative definition could be used as a base for leadership
development programs.
[read the full article: "An Integrative Definition of Leadership"]
Mikhail V. Grachev & Mariya A. Bobina
This paper summarizes the authors' findings on organizational leadership in Russia through
the GLOBE cross-cultural research program and further develops an interpretation of
empirical data on Russian business leadership. The authors discuss factors of effective
leadership rooted in the country's history, highlight relative scores on universal
leadership attributes, interpret culture-contingent leaders' characteristics, and
summarize the influence of culture on effective leadership in a transitional society.
[read the full article: "Russian Organizational Leadership: Lessons from the Globe Study"]
Carl R. Oliver
Vision statements articulated by 7 national leaders before and after a catastrophe were
examined to identify post-catastrophe changes in moral reasoning orientation, a worldview
that frames thinking about moral conflicts and what factors deserve priority when resolving
them. Moral reasoning orientation was found in 95.2% of those vision statements and both
caring and justice orientation always were present. Gilligan's (1993) linear model with
caring at one pole and justice at the opposite pole emerged as a useful model if holistic
scoring is used and showed the vision statements usually were justice oriented and became
more justice oriented after a catastrophe. Holistic scoring results were supported by some
triangulating evidence.
[read the full article: "Catastrophe's Impact on Leaders' Caring and Justice: Changes in Moral Reasoning Orientation"]
Carole Murphy, Kathleen Sullivan Brown, Harold Herman & Osman Ozturgut
This article describes a relationship between two universities that has resulted in a project
to help disadvantaged principals in economically repressed areas of South Africa. More than
15 years ago, in the midst of a deeply divided society, the University of Missouri System made
a momentous decision to support a Black university in Bellville, a suburb of Cape Town, South
Africa called the University of the Western Cape (UWC). This support was important because UWC
has prepared many of the Black leaders in South Africa, individuals who participated in the
dismantling of the apartheid system.
[read the full article: "Carole Murphy, Kathleen Sullivan Brown, Harold Herman & Osman Ozturgut"]
