BACKGROUND International migration is a global phenomenon challenging healthcare professionals to provide culturally competent care. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of leaders on the cultural competence of healthcare professionals. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted from 2010 to 2012 to obtain data for a social network analysis in 19 inpatie...

This review examines recent theoretical and empirical developments in the leadership literature, beginning with topics that are currently receiving attention in terms of research, theory, and practice. We begin by examining authentic leadership and its development, followed by work that takes a cognitive science approach. We then examine new-genre leadership theories, complexity leadership, and...

Project GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness) is a major long-term multiphase, multimethod research project to study cross-cultural leadership differences and similarities among countries (Javidan and House 2002). Project GLOBE’s 150 researchers, located in universities around the world, collected data from 15,000 middle managers from 875 organizations in the finan...

Previous research on cross-cultural leadership has examined the effects of leadership-society congruence without explaining how positive outcomes might result when there is a fit between leadership and societal culture, and via which mechanisms the effects of such congruence are transmitted. We fill this gap by developing a culturally contingency model of leader-society value congruence effects...

This study investigates the leadership characteristics of New Zealand’s two largest cultural groups, Māori and Pakeha. It examines the extent to which these leadership characteristics are rooted in the unique contexts of each culture. Followers’ perceptions of leadership behaviour were examined using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ). The hypothesis that leadership is deeply rooted...