Handbook of Global Leadership and Followership: Integrating the Best Leadership Theory and Practice

This handbook integrates the best leadership and followership theories and practices between the Global North-West (countries of Western individualistic cultures in Europe, North America, Australia and Oceana) and the Global South-East (countries of Eastern collectivistic cultures in Asia, Africa, South America, and South-East Asian and Oceana). There is a need to bring the Global North-West and the Global South-East together to address global challenges such as the climate change, global hunger and poverty, domestic and international terrorism, social justice, gender inequality, and domestic and global abuse of human and natural resources. This innovative volume proposes that the democratic leadership of the Global North-West and the human-centered followership of the Global South-East can transform the world if leadership and followership values, education, and practices are integrated. It utilizes findings from positive psychology, social psychology, organizational behavior, and world religions and contemplative wisdom traditions to highlight the case for global leadership and followership.

Satinder Dhiman is Professor of Management and Associate Dean, Chair, and Director of the MBA Program at Woodbury University’s School of Business in Burbank, California (USA). He is the Founder and Director of Forever Fulfilled, a Los Angeles-based Wellbeing Consultancy, which focuses on workplace wellness and self-leadership. Satinder’s work has been published in multiple national and international journals, and he has authored, co-authored, and co-edited many books on management and leadership. His current research on fulfillment is focused on transformative habits of mind for attaining lasting joy and fulfillment in both personal and professional life.

Joan Marques serves as Dean and Professor of Management at Woodbury University’s School of Business in Burbank, California (USA). Her teaching focuses on leadership, ethics, and organizational behavior, and her research interests pertain to the same areas with specific focus on workplace spirituality and leadership awareness. She has been widely published in prestigious scholarly journals and has authored, co-authored, and co-edited more than 18 books on management and leadership topics. Joan is a co-founder and editor-in-chief of three scholarly journals: The Business Renaissance Quarterly, Journal of Global Business Issues, and Interbeing, Journal of Personal and Professional Mastery. She has presented a weekly radio program titled ＂De Andere Kant＂ (The Other Side) on Mart Radio, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, for the past 15 years, and has been a long-time columnist for De Ware Tijd (The True Times), one of the largest newspapers in Paramaribo, Suriname.

June Schmieder-Ramirez serves as Program Chair of The PhD in Global Leadership and Change at Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, California (USA). Her current research focusses on acquiring a global mindset and she is the author of the Schmieder Global Mindset Inventory. June has also served as superintendent of a California School District. She has co-authored three texts with Dr. Arthur Townley on school finance, school personnel and school law. She is also the President of the non-profit International Center for Global Leadership which holds its annual conference in Placencia Belize, (www.icglconferences.com).

Petros G. Malakyan serves as the Department Head of Communication and Organizational Leadership and Acting Director of the Ph.D. Information Systems and Communications program at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA). His research focuses on leadership, followership, leader- follower dynamics in organizations across cultures, leadership education, and digital leaderfollowership. Petros has published articles in national and international scholarly journals and coauthored book chapters with global publishers such as IntechOpen, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, and Routledge.