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Benson School of Business, Southern Wesleyan University

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Boddy, R. P., Ladyshewsky, R., & Galvin, P. (2010). Leaders without ethics in global business: Corporate psychopaths. Journal of Public Affairs, 10(3), 121-138.

This paper introduced the concept of Corporate Psychopaths as ruthless employees who can successfully gain entry to organizations and can then get promoted within those organizations to reach senior managerial and leadership positions. The paper proposes that this is a universal issue that can pose various ethical problems for corporations because of the ruthless, selfish and conscience-free approach to life that Corporate Psychopaths have. The researchers asked the question, “Are corporate psychopaths a universal phenomenon?” (p. 132), to which they concluded “it appears that Corporate Psychopaths are a universal phenomenon, but that behavioural manifestations of the syndrome may well be modified by cultural influences at the country or even at the corporate level” (p. 134). The relevance to leadership theory is the understanding that psychopathic leaders can blend into the accepted societal norms of the individualistic culture of the West, while collectivist cultures would suppress the expression of anti-social behaviors. The authors cited Stout (2005), who posited that “Western societies allow and encourage attitudes devoted to the pursuit of domination of others” (p. 132).

Goh, J. W. P. (2009). Parallel leadership in an “unparallel” world: Cultural constraints on the transferability of Western education leadership theories across cultures. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 12(4), 319-345.

Drawing upon the concept of parallel leadership in schools, the purpose of this paper was to examine the notion that Western educational leadership theories are universal in applicability in a Singapore school context. This article is a synthesis of the literature and its application to educational leadership (principal/teacher). There was an interesting table, “The cultural relativity of motivation and effective motivational techniques” (p. 333), comparing Australian and Singaporean cultural work values.