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Romie,

 

This is a great topic to discuss at the NLS meeting at AOM. We also need to discuss the dysfunctional practice of confounding a managers formal job with the informal and independent process of team leadership. I'm in China for most of May giving seminars on  the new LMX approach to executive leadership in MNCs. I find that American leadership experts do not understand cross-national MNC executive leadership. My Chinese partners and I are doing research on this important topic now using a more rigorous methodology than Hoffsteade or even Globe. ask professors Ge, Gu. and Hui about our new Sino-Western managerial leadership projects in Shanghai-Pudong.

 

George Graen

Director, Center for Strategic Leadership Studies 

    

 

In a message dated 5/16/2011 11:50:16 A.M. Central Daylight Time, D.N.denHartog@UVA.NL writes:

Hi Romie,

Another more general edited leadership textbook that is coming out shortly and that includes many non-us scholars as authors is the second and revised edition of Day & Antonakis called 'The nature of leadership'. Culture is only a smaller part in it (a chapter), so if you want a fully internationally focused book it is probably not what you need and some of the other good suggestions that have been provided may then be better suited, but I thought it would be worth mentioning anyways. The SAGE website lists the table of contents (and I pasted them in below to give an idea).

best wishes

Deanne Den Hartog

Deanne N. Den Hartog, PhD
Professor of Organizational Behavior 
University of Amsterdam
d.n.denhartog@uva.nl
http://www.abs.uva.nl/pp/ddenhartog/

 

Romie,

 

In addition to Roya's article, here are some other potential teaching material resources/readings:

 

Handbook of Culture, Organization and Work, (2009) edited by Bhagat and Steers, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   This is a good reference book that reviews the cross-cultural literature and points out research holes.  It has leadership chapters and related chapters, i.e., trust, negotiation, teams.  See among others  "Understanding Leadership Across Cultures" by Dickson, den Hartog, & Castano and   "Global Leadership: Progress and Challenges"  by Osland, Taylor & Mendenhall. 

 

P. Smith, M. Peterson & D. Thomas. The Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.  See in particular Zeynap Aycan's "Cross-cultural Approaches to Leadership" and Peter Smith's "Indigenous Aspects of Management" among others.

 

Contemporary Leadership and Intercultural Competence: Exploring the Cross-Cultural Dynamics Within Organizations by Michael A. Moodian.  The authors in this edited volume are mainly intercultural communication scholars, so their  perspective is interesting. 

 

Leong, C. & Fischer, R. (2010). Is transformational leadership universal? A meta-analytical investigation of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire means across cultures. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. 

 

Tim Jackson wrote a 2010 dissertation that is a meta-analysis of leadership styles (transformation, charismatic and transactional leadership), commitment, and culture.  It's interesting, so I would look for an article or conference paper from him.     

 

Nancy Lockwood of SHRM wrote last year on female Indian leaders and also published a SHRM Quarterly article on "Global Leadership Development."  She does a good job of pulling together various research from around the world into a reader-friendly form that students like. 

 

If you want to include a global leadership perspective that assumes students will have followers from a variety of cultures, there is a compendium of GL research that some profs use with undergrad and grad students (although it was not written specifically as a textbook) -- Global Leadership: Research, Practice & Development  by Mendenhall, Osland, Bird, Oddou and Maznevski, Routledge, 2008.  We are currently working on a 2nd edition.  

 

 

Best wishes,

Joyce Osland

Executive Director, Global Leadership Advancement Center

College of Business

San Jose State University

(408)924-3583

http://sjsu.edu/glac  

 

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Roya Ayman <ayman@iit.edu> wrote:

Hi Romie,

I agree with George.  The only thing that is covered about culture in most books
including the ones you mentioned are some info gathered from  the GLOBE project
which is one methodology and some concerns.  A new book is coming our called
worldly leadership, that may have some interesting chapters too.  So, While I am
not familiar with the handbook George mentioned (will look into it though). I
agree the best is to gather articles and chapters.   I would humbly also remind
you of our article in the American Psychologist.

Ayman, R. & Korabik, K. (2010).  Leadership:  Why gender and culture matter.
American Psychologist. American Psychologist, 65, ( 3), 157–170.

Thanks,
Roya


Roya Ayman, Ph.D.
Fellow, The Leadership Trust Foundation, U.K.
Professor and Division Head
Industrial and Organization Psychology Division
College of  Psychology
Illinois Institute of Technology
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Chicago IL 60616
Tel: (312)567-3516
Fax: (312)567-3493
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----- Original Message -----
From: George Graen <lmxlotus@AOL.COM>
Date: Friday, May 13, 2011 8:58
>
>
> Romie,
>
> I find that all available textbooks at the BS and MBA levels are
> out of date on international leadership. The new concepts must be
> found in chapters in the Oxford University Handbook of Leadership (
> 2012 ) edited by Mike Rumsey. Chapters can be collected selectively
> into a virtual textbook by the instructor.
>
> Cheers,
>
> George Graen
>
>
>
> I'm struggling with finding appropriate textbooks for two courses, an
> ndergraduate introduction to managerial leadership in international
> nvironments for undergraduate business students, and a course with
> the same
> opic for Masters' degree level students.
> I'm familiar with Nothouse's "Leadership" and Yukl's "Leadership in
> rganizations", however these are too U.S.-centric for my needs. I
> teachostly international students who are going back home to work in
> nternational business organiations as managerial leaders in East
> and South
> sia, Russia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.
> Any suggestions?
> Regards,
> omie Littrell
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Romie Frederick Littrell <littrellaom@YAHOO.CO.NZ>
> To: LDRNET-L <LDRNET-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU>
> Sent: Fri, May 13, 2011 7:32 am
> Subject: [LDRNET] International Business Managerial Leadership
> textbooks, UG & PG
>
>
> I'm struggling with finding appropriate textbooks for two courses, an
> ndergraduate introduction to managerial leadership in international
> nvironments for undergraduate business students, and a course with
> the same
> opic for Masters' degree level students.
> I'm familiar with Nothouse's "Leadership" and Yukl's "Leadership in
> rganizations", however these are too U.S.-centric for my needs. I
> teachostly international students who are going back home to work in
> nternational business organiations as managerial leaders in East
> and South
> sia, Russia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.
> Any suggestions?
> Regards,
> omie Littrell
>
>