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Worldly Leadership

Alternative Wisdoms for a Complex World

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  1. Sharon Turnbull
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  2. Peter Case
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  3. Gareth Edwards
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  4. Doris Schedlitzki
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  5. Peter Simpson
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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Worldly Leadership Frames

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 2-2
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    2. Introduction

      • Peter Case, Sharon Turnbull, Shakoor Khakwani
      Pages 3-16

    3. National Language and its Importance for Worldly Leadership

      • Doris Schedlitzki
      Pages 17-31

    4. Leadership Development as a Catalyst for Social Change: Lessons from a Pan-African Programme

      • Richard Bolden, Philip Kirk
      Pages 32-51

    5. The Internationalization of Leadership Development

      • Vanessa Iwowo
      Pages 52-67

    6. Using the Worldly Leadership Lens to Approach the Task of Developing Women Leaders

      • Susan R. Madsen
      Pages 68-84

    7. Worldly Leadership and Concepts of Community

      • Gareth Edwards
      Pages 85-100

  3. Worldly Leadership Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Children’s Image of Leadership in China

      • Liwen Liu, Roya Ayman, Saba Ayman-Nolley
      Pages 105-134

    3. Implicit Leadership in Iran: Differences between Leader and Boss and Gender

      • Roya Ayman, Alan D. Mead, Afshin Bassari, Jialin Huang
      Pages 135-157

    4. Leadership in the Arab Middle East: Does the Islamic Tradition Provide a Basis for ‘Worldly Leadership’?

      • David Weir
      Pages 158-170

    5. Worldly Leadership through Local Knowledge: Discovering Voices of Emirati Women Business Leaders

      • Lynda L. Moore
      Pages 171-191

    6. Worldly Leadership in Pakistan Seth Organizations: An Empirical Challenge to the Concept of Global Leadership

      • Shakoor Khakwani, Peter Case
      Pages 192-205

    7. Linking the Worldly Mindset with an Authentic Leadership Approach: An Exploratory Study in a Middle Eastern Context

      • Behice Ertenu Saracer, Gaye Karacay-Aydin, Çigdem Asarkaya, Hayat Kabasakal
      Pages 206-222

    8. The Modern Challenges Facing Traditional Igbo Village Leadership

      • Onyekachi Wambu
      Pages 223-233

    9. Influences, Tensions and Competing Identities in Indian Business Leaders’ Stories

      • Sharon Turnbull, Tricia Calway, K. R. Sekhar
      Pages 234-256

    10. The Competing and Paradoxical Identities in the Narratives of Twenty-First-Century Russian Leaders

      • Vasilisa Takoeva, Sharon Turnbull
      Pages 257-283

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 285-290
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About this book

This book brings together non western, indigenous and eastern perspectives on leadership. Leadership theory has for too long been the exclusive domain of western academics developing leadership theories from the perspective of western institutions. Worldly leadership calls for pooling of the combined leadership wisdoms from all parts of the globe.

About the authors

SHARON TURNBULL is an independent academic and Visiting Professor at the University of Gloucestershire Business School and the University of Worcester Business School, UK. Sharon is Associate at the Leadership Trust, UK. Her current research interests are global and worldly leadership, responsible leadership, and leadership development.
PETER CASE is Professor of Management and Organisation Studies, at James Cook University, Australia and acting director of theBristol Centre for Leadership and Organizational Ethics, University of the West of England, UK. His research interests encompass the ethics of leadership, corporate social and environmental responsibility and organization theory.
GARETH EDWARDS is Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UK. His current interests are in the application of ideas on aesthetics and leadership, community and dispersed theories of leadership. Before entering academia Gareth spent 12 years working for The Leadership Trust Foundation. He is a chartered psychologist.
DORIS SCHEDLITZKI is Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies at Bristol Business School. She holds an MSc and DPhil in Management Studies from the Said Business School, University of Oxford, UK. Her research focuses on organizational leadership with specific interest in leadership identities, leadership discourse and leadership construction.
PETER SIMPSON is Reader in Organisation Studies at Bristol Business School and Director of MBA and Executive Education and Deputy Director of the Bristol Centre for Leadership and Organisational Ethics. His current areas of interest are spirituality, psychodynamics and complexity applied to issues of organisational leadership and strategic change.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Worldly Leadership

  • Book Subtitle: Alternative Wisdoms for a Complex World

  • Editors: Sharon Turnbull, Peter Case, Gareth Edwards, Doris Schedlitzki, Peter Simpson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230361720

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-28470-8Published: 13 December 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32989-2Published: 15 February 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-36172-0Published: 13 December 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 290

  • Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Management, International Economics

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