Abstract
This paper presents a study to identify pertinent traits that characterize effective leaders in various societal settings. The paper relates that the mixed methodology used in this study is (1) a qualitative analysis of the relevant peer-reviewed and scholarly literature concerning the specific relationship between leadership styles, organizational culture and the larger society and (2) a review and synthesis of various case studies concerning the impact of leadership on cross-cultural organizational performance. The paper includes a summary of the major aims and objectives of the study and an analysis of implications for leaders and recommendations for organizations such as "treat all people fairly".

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Statement of the Problem
Aims and Objectives
Significance of the Study
Rationale of the Study
Literature Review
Background and Overview
Definitions of Culture
Table: Bureaucratic, Innovative and Supportive Organizational Cultures
Table: Family-Owned and Operated Organizational Cultures
Table: Masculine and Collectivist Organizational Cultures
Cultural Aspects of Organizational Leadership
Relationship between Organizational Leadership and Society
Table: Types of Organizational Citizenship Behaviors
Table: Potential Reasons Why Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCBs) Influence Work Group And/Or Organizational Performance
Discussion
Chapter Summary
Methodology
Description of the Study Approach
Data-Collection
Sample
Setting
Ethical Considerations
Evaluative Action Plan
Instruments/Measurements
Chapter Summary
Results and Presentation of Findings
Discussion, Implications and Recommendations
Results and Presentation of Findings
Introduction
Sample
Studies
Table: Recapitulation and Summary of Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Consulted
Setting
Ethical Considerations
Evaluative Action Plan
Table: Noblit and Hare's Meta-Ethnographic Comparative Method
Instruments/Measurements
Chapter Summary
Discussion, Implications and Recommendations
Introduction
Summary of Major Aims and Objectives
Implications
Recommendations
Limitations

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"These responsibilities frequently involve decision processes that are unstructured, complex, and ambiguous; the studies to date indicate that the outcomes of such decision processes can be affected greatly by the characteristics of the team and its members.
"Taken together, the foregoing suggests that an organization's culture is highly influenced by its top leadership, but workers play a reciprocal role by helping them achieve the organization's goals and keeping it competitive."

Tags:cross-cultural, validity, continuum, sample, meta-synthesis

Abstract
In this paper, the validity of the belief that in a business setting culture cannot be managed is critically analyzed and arguments are made both for and against the statement. The paper also presents examples that suggest that organizational culture does play a very important role in the success of the organization. However, these same examples also serve to reinforce a contention about the inability of corporate culture or management to undergo change.

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"It must be acknowledged that the assertion - "Culture cannot be managed" - would likely meet with some degree of skepticism from organizational management students as well as corporate professionals. However, it may be argued that there is some validity to the perspective on the relationship between management and organizational culture that is manifest in this assertion. Consider, for example, the case of software giant J.D. Edwards. The corporation's CEO and chairman, C. Edward McVaney, contends that the success of a business often has very little to do with its management and senior executives who - as is commonplace in corporate culture - often come and go with minimal impact upon the organization itself. It is McVaney's view that the success of an organization is based upon its culture, which is usually invulnerable to change by management or business leaders. In McVaney's words: "95% of the time, the leaders and management of a business do not lead and manage that business" (Jesitus 16)."

Tags:business, culture, management

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This four-page undergraduate paper discusses the importance of mythology and folklores in the religion, social and cultural structure of the African continent. The African society is based on a tribal system, which is considered to be of immense importance, and these tribes follow the customs and traditions of their ancestors without questioning their validity.

Tags:impact, african, culture

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This paper addresses the two arguments about cultural change in an organization; some people argue that the culture of the organization cannot be changed, while other people argue that the culture of the organization can be changed. The paper posits that while both sides of the argument have valid points, studying the culture of organizations will show that change is possible. The paper asserts that when arguing the issue of changing the culture of organization, it is important to look at both arguments before deciding that the culture of an organization can indeed change.

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""Basically, organizational culture is the personality of an organization" (McNamara). Every individual has a personality and the same can be stated about organizations with each organization having an individual culture (personality) that makes the organization what it is. Some people argue that the culture of the organization cannot be changed, while other people argue that the culture of the organization can be changed. While both sides of the argument have valid points, studying the culture of organizations will show that change is possible. When arguing the issue of changing the culture of organization, it is important to look at both..."

Tags:culture, organization, values

Abstract
This paper discusses the ongoing need for effective leadership in all types of organizations and how these leaders go about accomplishing their respective organizational goals. The author identifies pertinent traits that characterize effective leaders in various societal settings and analyzes the importance of these outcomes as they relate to the increasingly multicultural society in the United States and the forces that are fueling globalization of the marketplace.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Aims and Objectives
Significance of the Study
Chapter Two: Literature Review
Background and Overview.
Definitions of Culture.
Cultural Aspects of Organizational Leadership.
Relationship between Organizational Leadership and Society.
Discussion.
Chapter Summary.
Chapter 3 - Methodology
Description of the Study Approach
Data Analysis
Validity and Reliability
Chapter Summary
Chapter 4 - Results and Presentation of the Findings
Introduction
Sample
Evaluative Action Plan
Chapter Summary
Chapter 5 - Discussion, Implications and Recommendations
Introduction
Summary of Major Aims and Objectives
Implications
Recommendations
References

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"Indeed, these fundamental shifts in demographic composition have introduced a number of challenges to leaders of all types of organizations today, and identifying best practices becomes particularly difficult in view of the increasingly competitive and dynamic globalized marketplace in which these companies are competing. Certainly, it is possible and therefore desirable to discern some good examples from bad when it comes to effective leadership in various organizational settings in this environment today, and this relationship between organizational culture and the larger society in which it exists is the focus of the proposed study which is discussed further below."

Tags:organizations, multiculturalism

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Culture is a critical variable in career counseling and should enter into every part of the career counseling process. This paper explains that, in order to effectively utilize a valid frame of reference in which to place cultural variables, counselors need to be familiar with theories of acculturation, world-views, aspirations and expectations, societal barriers and intra-group socialization, and racial and ethnic identity development.The writer explains that it is clear that career counselors working with multi-cultural students must be trained in such a way as to ensure that they are completely sensitive to and well-versed in matching individual students to the appropriate work environment. It discusses how career counseling is a process occurring between two or more individuals and designed to help students reach a career decision. It concludes that, in order to be effective as a career counselor with racial and ethnic minority students, counselors must become skilled in cross-cultural counseling.

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"Good career counseling always takes place within a cultural context, which is true regardless of ethnicity. Current theoretical models may not be adequate to explain the career behavior of racial and ethnic minorities. Vocational assessment has to be culturally sensitive, and only culturally appropriate tools should be used in vocational assessment. The goal of career counseling is to help clients make career choices that are culturally appropriate, rather than to try to have all clients make the same choices. Today, with the changes in the balance of ethnic representations in the United States, and a greater recognition of the changing needs of racial and ethnic minority members, it is generally agreed that counselors must be competent to work with a diverse population and effectively deliver vocational counseling services to racial and ethnic minorities."

Tags:minority, cross-culture, student, work

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In this paper, the culture of homophobia at the local and national level in the United States has been analyzed in this film study of The Laramie Project. By evaluating the religious and moral underpinnings for the validation of homophobia in Laramie, Kaufman brings forth the apathetic and ignorant points of view about Shepard's death are also a national problem. By realizing the lack of legislative still not taken by Congress to address hate crime legislation for the protection of gays, this probability of this crime recurring is likely.

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Tags:sex, education, issues

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In Ellen Goodman's essay, "The Culture of Thin Bites-Fijian Teens," the writer argues against the thin culture that the United States is responsible for injecting around the world. The paper examines how Goodman distinctly uses the three forms of rhetoric, ethos, pathos, and logos, in her piece, making her arguments seem valid and authentic.

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"Logos comes next in this argument, as after presenting an overview of Fijian values before 1995, Goodman proves that television was indeed responsible for the massive transformation during 1995. She backs her argument with the help of sound factual information and presents important statistics. Goodman incorporates facts, which prove that after 1995, major changes were noticed in the behavior of Fijian youth as far as body image was concerned. It was precisely in 1995 that Fijians got access to international television channels and within months after that, there was a dramatic change in the attitude of youth towards body image and diet."

Tags:diet, anorexia, bulimia

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This paper examines the dream sequence taking place during the garden scene of the movie "The Manchurian Candidate" and its relation to the overall thematic devices and meanings of the film as well as in relation to American culture during the time the film was set. The paper addresses the issues of Cold War paranoia, the threat of Communism, the workings of the mind and the emasculation of motherhood. The paper shows how the movie validates and seems to encourage a vague sense of fear and paranoia towards mothers, neighbors, lovers, communists, anti-communists, British citizens, American citizens and even one's own mind.

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"The novel The Manchurian Candidate, written by Richard Condon in 1959, is a political thriller dealing with many of the hot topics of the day: the threat of communism, discrediting Senator Joseph McCarthy, the workings of the mind and emasculating motherhood (Rogin, 1) to name a few. John Frankenheimer's 1962 film version elevates these concepts with more vibrant and salient clarity through his stylistic choices. In particular I will be examining the Ladies' Garden Club dream scene as it appears to several soldiers in their dreams. As the audience enters Bennett Marco's recurring dream, film conventions of a blurred or hazy lens indicating a dream sequence are abandoned. His dream is as crisp and clear as his daily life (Marcus, 3). The only sign that something is amiss is the sporadic and seamless conflating of the Garden Club meeting with an auditorium that seems to be a gathering of the communist United Nations. The confusion of identity and setting Marco experiences is common in dreams and Marco at first wishes to accept this as an explanation. But the truth is far more sinister- the confusion exists in his dream because it is actually a memory; enemy forces have tampered with his brain."

Tags:Cold, War, paranoia, Communism, motherhood, mind

Abstract
This paper discusses how European ideology transformed the beliefs that existed in relation to gender of the Native Americans According to the paper, European settlement influenced women to be viewed as the helpers of men at all levels of the social order and were considered unintelligent, incapable of decision making and valid only as mothers and caregivers to their spouses.

From the Paper
"As European ideology transformed the beliefs that existed in relation to gender of the Native Americans, equality between men and women became obsolete. Women began to be viewed as the helpers of men at all levels of the social order and were considered unintelligent, incapable of decision making and valid only as mothers and caregivers to their spouses. As world war emerged, however, women entered the workforce to provide income..."

Tags:gender, inequality, business