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Core and peripheral cultural values and their relationship to transformational leadership attributes of South African managers
Thesis (PhD (Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2007.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/24724 Core and peripheral cultural values and their relationship to transformational leadership attributes of South African managers Strumpfer, Deo eriaan@absamail.co.za Oelofse, Eriaan Power distance New economy leadership Ubuntu Uncertainty avoidance Western leadershiposs-cultural leadership Cultural values Collectivism Future orientation Gender egalitarianism Female leadership Diversity Humane orientation Individualism Social constructionism Transformational leadership Afrocentric leadership Crmasculinity/femininity Assertiveness UCTD Thesis (PhD (Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2007. Due to the changing demographics of South African organisations after the 1994 elections and the subsequent sub-cultural diversification, the working environment is becoming the primary place where the different South African sub-cultural groups, with their different value systems, are in interaction with each other. The consequent lifting of sanctions exposed South African organisations to globalisation and international competition. This forced managers to improve organisational processes and operations, not only to protect their own domestic markets, but also to become internationally competitive. At the same time, they had to adhere to newly created labour legislation, which dramatically changed the face of the South African labour market. The complex combination of several sub-cultures in the South African work environment can adversely affect organisational effectiveness if not properly understood and managed by effective transformational leaders. The concept of cultural values was used to explore the differences, as well as the similarities, between the various sub-cultural groups in the South African environment. This study examined cultural differences and similarities between 477 junior and middle managers in the financial services sector, who belonged to the four South African sub-cultural groups (Black, Coloured, White, and Indian), and between South African male and female managers. It also investigated whether cultural values change indiscriminately during the acculturation process, or whether certain cultural values, labelled peripheral values, change easier or before other cultural values, labelled core values. Due to the importance of transformational leadership in the work environment, this study also explored the differences and similarities of South African managers on Bass and Avolio’s Full Range Model of Leadership. (Avolio&Bass, 1999; Bass, 1985, 1997). A moderate social constructionist theory was used as a framework for this study, to analyse and describe quantitative results obtained with the various measuring instruments. Firstly, it was found that although there were statistically significant differences between most of the cultural value dimensions of the various sub-cultural groups, not all of these differences were practically significant. Results indicated that these groups could often be clustered together on specific cultural value dimensions, sometimes consisting of a Black, White, and Coloured cluster, sometimes as a Black, Coloured, and Indian cluster, and so forth. Secondly, independent variables other than sub-cultural group, gender, and age also showed practically significant relationships with some of the cultural value dimensions. Thirdly, the results indicated that the cultural values are very stable, even in the dynamic and multi-cultural South African environment, and as such, no core or peripheral values could be identified. Finally, the results also indicated that the transformational-transactional leadership model is cross-culturally endorsed within the South African financial services sector. It pointed out that irrespective of gender, junior or middle management level, age, educational level, number of years full-time work experience, number of years as manager, or having been exposed to formal Western management training, all managers evaluated themselves as more transformational than transactional. Psychology unrestricted 2013-09-06T18:13:58Z 2007-05-16 2013-09-06T18:13:58Z 2007-04-16 2007-05-16 2007-05-16 Thesis Oelofse, E 2007, Core and peripheral cultural values and their relationship to transformational leadership attributes of South African managers, PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24724 > http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24724 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05162007-164350/ © 2007, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Power distance New economy leadership Ubuntu Uncertainty avoidance Western leadershiposs-cultural leadership Cultural values Collectivism Future orientation Gender egalitarianism Female leadership Diversity Humane orientation Individualism Social constructionism Transformational leadership Afrocentric leadership Crmasculinity/femininity Assertiveness UCTD Core and peripheral cultural values and their relationship to transformational leadership attributes of South African managers |
| title | Core and peripheral cultural values and their relationship to transformational leadership attributes of South African managers |
| title_full | Core and peripheral cultural values and their relationship to transformational leadership attributes of South African managers |
| title_fullStr | Core and peripheral cultural values and their relationship to transformational leadership attributes of South African managers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Core and peripheral cultural values and their relationship to transformational leadership attributes of South African managers |
| title_short | Core and peripheral cultural values and their relationship to transformational leadership attributes of South African managers |
| title_sort | core and peripheral cultural values and their relationship to transformational leadership attributes of south african managers |
| topic | Power distance New economy leadership Ubuntu Uncertainty avoidance Western leadershiposs-cultural leadership Cultural values Collectivism Future orientation Gender egalitarianism Female leadership Diversity Humane orientation Individualism Social constructionism Transformational leadership Afrocentric leadership Crmasculinity/femininity Assertiveness UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24724 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05162007-164350/ |