Leadership and local development: Dimensions of leadership in four Central Queensland towns

Sørensen, Tony; Epps, Roger

doi:10.1016/0743-0167(95)00052-6

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“…Leader traits include drive (a broad term that includes achievement, motivation, ambition, energy, tenacity, and initiative); leadership motivation (the desire to lead but not to seek power as an end in itself); honesty and integrity; self-confidence (which is associated with emotional stability); cognitive ability; and knowledge of business (Kirkpatrick & Locke, 1991;Zaccaro, Kemp, & Bader, 2004). A substantial volume of research has been published on leader traits (Judge, Piccolo, & Kosalka, 2009), and of particular relevance to the current study, Sorensen and Epps' (1996) examination of local leaders in rural Australian communities concluded that although leaders had similar traits, the situational context was paramount to leadership effectiveness. They concluded, therefore, it was not possible to develop a definitive list of traits that could define an "effective" local leader.…”

Section: Local Leadership and Rural Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Developing the local leadership capacities of rural residents was identified as crucial to the success of bottom-up community development and adaptation initiatives (Sorensen & Epps, 1996), and from the mid-1990s there was a proliferation of leadership training programs introduced across the contextually diverse rural settings of advanced industrial countries (Madsen & O'Mullan, 2014; also see Beer, 2014).…”

Section: Local Leadership and Rural Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Life After a Festival: Local Leadership and The Lasting Legacy of Festivals

Davies

2015

Event Management

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This article considers how local leadership capacities can be developed through locally organized festivals and argues that this skill development can be an important legacy of festivals. It draws on the case study of SnowFest, a festival held annually from 2000 to 2003 in a small rural town in New South Wales, Australia. It is argued that festivals provide a useful setting for the development of local leadership capacities. Through reviewing the events leading up to and following SnowFest it was found that seven followers learned new leadership skills through their involvement in SnowFest. Four of these followers had since moved into leadership roles in the community. The particular nature of the leadership of the SnowFest leaders was important in enabling followers to develop their own leadership skills. The article contributes to the growing body of scholarly work that argues the impacts and benefits of locally organized festivals can extend beyond the spatial and temporal limits of the festival event and therefore beyond the scope of typical evaluation tools. The findings of this study are particularly relevant to small rural communities that are negotiating major socioeconomic changes, where effective local leadership has been identified as being crucial to the success of bottom-up community adaptation initiatives.

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Section: Local Leadership and Rural Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Local Leadership and Rural Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Life After a Festival: Local Leadership and The Lasting Legacy of Festivals

Davies

2015

Event Management

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“…In turn, tourists have criticized the village online (for details on tourists' comments on Likeng Village, see Lvping, a net for tourists to share tourism experience, http://www.lvping.com/attraction_review-d446-s17426-attraction.html), further damaging the image of the village. (17), restaurants and bars (14), snack stalls (4), and shops (22). All of these businesses can use electronic payment methods.…”

Section: Phase 2 (2002 To 2016): Controlled By Outside Capital (1) Comentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Based on this definition and the definitions of leadership developed by Northouse [15] and Locke [1], we define community leadership as "a process whereby a community leader influences other community residents to achieve a common goal". Effective community leadership is "key to organizational effectiveness and successful endogenous development activities" [66], contributing to local economic and social development [22]. Tourism has been adopted as an effective way to promote rural community development [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39].…”

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Community Leadership in Rural Tourism Development: A Tale of Two Ancient Chinese Villages

Xu¹,

Jin²,

Tian³

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:Researchers are paying increasing attention to questions of community leadership and rural tourism development. Based on leadership theories and the literature on community leadership and tourism development, this study developed a framework for community leadership in rural tourism development and used it to examine two ancient Chinese villages. We used the longitudinal case study method to collect data, and we used textual analysis to analyze these data. The results show that the rebel leadership characteristic of confrontational actions played an important role in starting the tourism industry in both villages. However, this leadership was difficult to maintain because community leaders and residents had limited power compared to that of outsiders. Losing control of tourism development in the two villages led to banal management, which prevented the emergence of strong community leadership. In the future, we argue that resilient community leadership should be nurtured in the two villages to address more complex problems occurring in tourism development, such as those characterized by vision tensions and conflicts of interest among the stakeholders affected by tourism development. Finally, we suggest that, based on the longitudinal method, future research can focus on the relationship between resilient leadership and the resilience of tourism communities.

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Where there is no vision the people perish: ethical vision and community sustainability

Raadt

Raadt²

2005

Syst. Res.

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This paper supports the inclusion of Christianity in the European constitution. It does this by analysing the role that an ethical vision plays in sustaining a community and the impact on other critical factors such as ethics, work, management, social structure and education that ensues when vision is undermined. It examines in particular the contribution that the Christian vision has made to communities in the past and the systemic role it can play in ensuring their long-term viability today. The study applies a multi-modal systems framework to analyse the links between the vision and these critical factors and projects that may unfold in communities once they lose their vision.

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Leadership and local development: Dimensions of leadership in four Central Queensland towns

Cited by 57 publications

References 4 publications

Life After a Festival: Local Leadership and The Lasting Legacy of Festivals

Life After a Festival: Local Leadership and The Lasting Legacy of Festivals

Community Leadership in Rural Tourism Development: A Tale of Two Ancient Chinese Villages

Where there is no vision the people perish: ethical vision and community sustainability

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