2012
DOI: 10.1108/17506141211236686
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Balanced leadership: perspectives, principles and practices

Abstract: Purpose -Balanced leadership is attracting increasing attention from academia and practitioners. In this rapidly changing world, maintaining balance while moving ahead is becoming a challenge for organizational leaders concerned with effective leadership. The traditional concept of balancing, theoretically, has been frequently re-visited by researchers, while new concepts of balancing are being developed by researchers and practitioners, in order to effectively guide the practice in the real institutional sett… Show more

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“…For instance, by investigating the relationship among work and family conflict, career expectations, and career development for Chinese women, Wang and Cho (2013, p. 49) argued that "women face high work-family conflict, influencing their career expectation and hindering career development". Cultural environment plays an important role in the process of leadership and management (Kong & Zhang, 2011;Zhang & Foo, 2012). Although being wary of generalizing, consistent with research by Hofstede (1980Hofstede ( , 1991 and Shi and Wang (2011), Chinese culture places greater emphasis on collectivism whereas some cultures, such as that of the US, tend to emphasize individualism.…”
Section: The Role Of Cultural and Social Factorsmentioning
confidence: 64%
“…For instance, by investigating the relationship among work and family conflict, career expectations, and career development for Chinese women, Wang and Cho (2013, p. 49) argued that "women face high work-family conflict, influencing their career expectation and hindering career development". Cultural environment plays an important role in the process of leadership and management (Kong & Zhang, 2011;Zhang & Foo, 2012). Although being wary of generalizing, consistent with research by Hofstede (1980Hofstede ( , 1991 and Shi and Wang (2011), Chinese culture places greater emphasis on collectivism whereas some cultures, such as that of the US, tend to emphasize individualism.…”
Section: The Role Of Cultural and Social Factorsmentioning
confidence: 64%
“…In some cultures, women in leadership positions are not viewed positively (O’Connor 2015 ; Huang and Aaltio 2014 ; Zhang 2005 , 2010 ; Javalgi et al 2011 ). In others they are expected to assume the greater share of the family and homelife responsibilities despite the demands of leadership (Yang 2011 ; Kong and Zhang 2011 ; Zhang and Foo 2012 ; Cho and Ryu 2016 ). Some authors posit that women tend to exclude themselves because of their social orientation, thus creating a ‘psychological glass ceiling’ against themselves (Austin 2009 ; Eagly 2015 ; Sandberg and Scovell 2013 ).…”
Section: Factors Impacting On Leadershipmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A specific environment, such as a cultural environment, plays an important role in the process of leadership and management (Koontz and Weihrich, 1993; Zhang and Chua, 2009; Kong and Zhang, 2011; Hsu and Chiu, 2008; Zhang and Foo, 2012); in addition, there are a considerable number of components of leadership behaviors have cultural and geographical sensibility (House and NAditya, 1997). In this way, the national culture and the organizational culture become important factors that affect the effectiveness of leadership behavior (Wu et al , 2002).…”
Section: Literature Review and Main Questionsmentioning
confidence: 99%