Instructor:
Ma'am Nosheen Nawaz
Group Members
Atia Rizvi 07
Atif Rehman
Asma Hameed Azhar Naeem
06
05 08
Research Paper
Culture and leadership in Africa: a Conceptual Model and Research agenda
Overview
Introduction Leadership theories Culture and leadership Goal-behavior and outcome model Agenda of further research Conclusion
Overview
LEADERSHIP
Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.
Introduction
Dismal Growth Of Sab Sahara African Economics Situation Describe As Disaster and Tragedy
African Leaders
Ineffective Need to develop managerial capacities Poor to meet the demand of the complex globalized economic system
Intellectual capacity
Training programs
Remove weaknesses
Nelson Mandela
Leadership Theories
King Abdulaziz
King Saud Bin AbdulAziz 1373 1384 AH ( 1953 1964 AD) King Faisal Bin AbdulAziz 1384 1395 AH ( 1964 1975 AD ) King Khaled Bin AbdulAziz 1395 1402 AH ( 1975 1982 AD ) King Fahad Bin AbdulAziz ( The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques ) 1402 1426 AH ( 1982 2005 AD)
Situational Theory
Different situations call for the different types of actions Example Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
Transformational leadership
Complexity theory
Leadership is based on complex interactions of among various organization players
Producing power , structure and networks of relationship
No single leader can influence organization
Authentic leadership
Leaders attention on self awareness
Self-regulated positive behaviors Exhibit ethical behaviors Such behavior encourage openness & desire to share information
Types of cultures
Conceptual Model
Goals, expectations of employees Leadership styles and relationship Decisions and Behaviors Organizational Performance
Leadership behaviors can be explained in terms of leaders response to culturally induced goals
Behaviors of African Leaders are far from those attributed to transformational leadership Autocratic benevolence Due to maintaining superior relationships, individual and organizational performance being of secondary importance
Leader follower relationship in Africa serves more to constrain then to advance organizational performance
Conceptual Model
The model endorses the argument that effective leadership in Africa requires an initiation of change in certain aspects of African Culture
Additional Research
Leadership and organizational performance Leadership development strategies
If leadership is: I. To halt Africa's economic decline and II. Place it on path of consistent growth
Leadership development
Strategies required?
Cross-vergence (Jackson)
A theory which takes multi-level factors into consideration to develop a model to predict how values and ethics in societies change over time and what are the dominant driving forces behind it and furthermore relates this cross-cultural research back into international workplaces
Leadership development
Western practices + Non-western practices linked with local culture
Agents attentiveness for leadership style Cultural constraint on effective leadership Further investigations required
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