An Overview of Leadership in Developing/Traditional Societies
摘要
The current chapter presents the scholarship about management and leadership which is highly influenced by western ideologies, conceptualizations, and cultural scripts. It elaborates on western paradigms of leadership/management and contrasts it with the research on African/Asian leadership and management in organization. The chapter then goes on to presented the limited scope of the research on educational leadership in non-western societies and concludes with the methodology used in this work to analyze the biographies of great leaders from Asia and Africa.