DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dialectic, Emic And Etic, Western People
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Strategic leadership practices can help firms enhance their effectiveness and their abilities to compete in dynamic and uncertain environment. The majority of management theories have been developed in the western context and may not be applicable to management globally. About 98% of the theories come from the u. s. The impact of charismatic leadership on employee satisfaction was much stronger in the u. s. compared to that in mexico: upper echelons theory and strategic leadership. According to the upper echelons theory, individual experience, personal values, cognitive style, and personality traits of the upper echelons have an important impact on strategic choices and decisions (hambrick & mason). Information filtering process, using psychological factors and observable experiences: pro: helps to understand leadership at macro level, con: does not take into account cross-cultural phenomena. The strategic leadership theory suggested that the key dependent variable of concern is organisational performance defined in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, and stakeholder"s needs (finkelstein &
