An overview of global leadership: Ethics, values, cultural diversity and conflicts

Global leadership has been shaped by three major forces of change: liberalization (trades, policies, etc.), globalization and technology development. From an examination of the history of exponential change faced by companies, we notice a new style of management is flourishing. A review of scholarly and literary works on management reveals that there is a wide array of techniques to describe leadership practice and its intricacies. Management style has been conceptualized as a trait, as a behavior or seen from a cultural movement perspective. In this paper, the pedigree of leadership thought, and the recognized management theories that have progressed since the turn of the century, are examined