Culture, Leadership, and Organizations
Embracing the Complexity of Leadership
- 1st Edition - January 29, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editor: Adebowale Akande
- Language: English
Culture, Leadership, and Organization: Embracing the Complexity of Leadership presents a comprehensive analysis of contemporary issues in leadership, people, and management across… Read more
Description
Description
Key features
Key features
- Provides detailed case studies to illustrate theoretical concepts in real-world organizational settings
- Addresses the influence of cultural backgrounds, work culture legitimization, office politics, and career progression to help understand workplace political dynamics
- Examines the underlying processes of unique organizational dynamics
- Offers a detailed perspective on organizational behavior and development, enhancing readers' comprehension of leadership and management intricacies
- Discusses the effects of artificial intelligence on productivity, work relationships, and governance, making it relevant to contemporary organizational discussions and reforms
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
1.Politically Charged: From Ballot Boxes to Break Rooms - Leadership in the Context of Democratic Politics and Business
Part II: Leadership, Technology, and Practice in a Changing World
2.Leading Digitalization of International Interaction Processes: A Discussion of Intercultural Communication Challenges and the Emerging Role of Artificial Intelligence in Organizations
3.Reclaiming the “Oranyan” Soul of Qualitative Leadership Research: Beyond Positivity, Toward Purpose and Rigor
4.Virtual Expatriates as Global Leaders: The Role of Technological Acumen
5.Policy Pragmatics: Practice and Possibilities
Part III: Emotions, Values, and Inclusion in Leadership and Organizations
6.The Behavioral Level of Emotional Intelligence and Its Measurement Predicting Effectiveness in Leadership, Management, and Professions (A Critical Bridge Between Cultural Theory and Applied Leadership Practice)
7.Asset or Liability? The Dual Role of Affect Heterogeneity in Team Creativity
8.Digital Leadership and the Management of Culturally Diverse Teams
9.The Influence of Organizational Justice and Leadership Values on Employee Satisfaction and Retention
10.Resource Passageways and Personal Resources: Influence of Cooperative Psychological Climate on Workplace Thriving
11.Cultural and Structural Challenges to Female Leadership: A Comparative Study of Austria and Greece Within the European Union Framework
Part IV: Authoritarian Drift: Misrule, Misinformation, and the Global Democratic Backslide
12.Mis-leadership and Autocracy in Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu
13.Taming Political Leadership in the United Kingdom: “Bojo,” Brexit, Muslims, and Multiculturalism
14.How to Overcome Populist Propaganda, Disinformation, and Misinformation
15.Threats to Democracy From Populism, Demagogues, and Posers
Part V: Leadership, Culture, and Belonging in Global Context
16.Sustainable and Cross-Cultural Leadership: Perspectives From the BRICS Nations
17.The Cascading Multilevel Effect of Servant Leadership as a Driver of Employee Organizational Citizenship Behavior
18.The Price of Belonging: In-Group Bias and Social Exclusion
Part VI: Voices at the Margins: Exclusion, Resistance, and the Struggle for Justice
19.A Conceptual Framework of Workplace Bullying of Black Female Faculty at Primarily-White Institutions
20.Bullied Out of School: Parents’ Disaffection With Schools’ Bullying Management Affecting Their Child’s Self-Esteem Leading Them to Choose to Home Educate
21.Disentangling Xenophobia in South Africa: From Consequences to Pathways of Transformative Justice
22.Truths be Told: A Collective Autoethnography Reflecting Leaders’ Social and Academic Dissonance in Higher Education
Part VII: Disaster and Preparedness
23.Residents’ Earthquake Risk Perceptions and Preparedness in Türkiye: Research Findings
Part VIII: Culture, Law and Leadership
24.Between Me and We: Navigating Individualism and Collectivism in a World on Edge
25.Tribalism: Challenges in Leadership and Business Executive and Legislative Dynamics: Crafting Immigration Policy in the United States
26.Executive and Legislative Dynamics: Crafting Immigration Policy in the United States
27.Assertions of Judicial Finality: A Claim with Cultural and Organizational Implications
28.Personality at Work: Theory, Assessment, and Organizational Application
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: February 2, 2026
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
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Adebowale Akande
Adebowale Akande an international social theorist and professor of behavior science in psychology, public affairs education and management. Akande is one of the world’s well-known and respected cross-cultural scientists. An emerging towering figure in social science. As a researcher on SCOPUS, he has been cited numerous times in assorted articles with an H-index of 143/23. On Google scholar, he has been cited 38,650 times in numerous articles with an i10 index of 120 and an H-index of 51. On ResearchGate index 30. Notable for the audacity of his theorizing, and the expansive scope of his global cross-cultural research in international/public affairs. One of the world’s top contributors and very productive transcultural scientist-practitioners- researchers, written or edited numerous books and hundreds of peer-reviewed journal articles/chapters/technical papers; Several reprinted in anthologies and Financial Times-50 list. Has held faculty appointments at several international Universities. Among multiple awards conferred, Akande received the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship, 1992; IUPSYS International Award, 1996; and Frank Andrew University of Michigan, in 1996; ISP Award, 2000; Taiwan Government International Scholar Fellowship 2005;, Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship, 2008; Fellow Schloss Leopoldskron, Austria 2008; Certificate of Honor, Indian IPM Institute, 2008, AME Harvard University Grant, 2016; AAG Award, 2018 .