Leadership Development in South Africa

Bibliographic Data

ID20064647
AuthorsRobert M Yawson (0000-0001-6215-4345, Quinnipiac University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages93-109
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueLeadership Development in Emerging Market Economies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-58003-0_6
OpenAlexW2567210326
ISBN9781137580030
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited22

This chapter reviews leadership development in South Africa and the methods that are currently used to develop emerging leaders. I take a broad look at leadership development in a dynamic, changing, unpredictable postmodern era, together with that which needs to be preserved from the South African perspective in a dualistic environment of Afrocentric and Eurocentric leadership. I then illuminate some local examples and approaches to leadership development and make recommendations that reflect contemporary leadership development in South Africa, with all its diverse and complex socioeconomic contexts, peoples and social systems. The chapter illustrates examples of successful implementation of leadership development models and shows how they have succeeded amidst, and in spite of, numerous contextual challenges

Development (topology) · Geography · Leadership development · Mathematical analysis · Political science · Public relations · Education, Leadership, and Health Research · Global and Cross-Cultural Management · Mathematics · Workplace Spirituality and Leadership