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United I Stand: An Investigation of Power Distance Value and Endorsement of the Great Man Theory Through American Social Identities

Girton, Jeffrey M.
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1446-591X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1571322381565998

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2019, Ph.D., Antioch University, Leadership and Change.
Four decades of research on power distance have been applied to cross-cultural leadership studies on an inter-national level. A quantitative investigation was conducted to analyze a uniquely American narrative of power distance, which was developed through a post-structural epistemology. Using ANTi-History theory, endorsement of the Great Man Theory was argued to be a leadership ethos that is related to American power distance value. The GLOBE project’s Power Distance Subscale, Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner’s Achievement Versus Ascription Scale, and an author-developed scale for self-reported endorsement of the Great Man Theory was deployed to investigate culturally contingent leadership ethos on an intra-national level within a representative U.S. American sample. The study was able to validate the Social Authority Scale, using items from the Power Distance Subscale and Achievement Versus Ascription Scale. Demographic measurements of 645 participants from a convenience sample were analyzed to understand how social identity influenced this leadership construct. Significant variations were found based upon American social identities. Implications for intra-national cross-cultural leadership theory are discussed, as well as empirical and theoretical based implications for leadership practitioners. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA: Antioch University Repository and Archive, http://aura.antioch.edu/ and OhioLINK ETD Center, https://etd.ohiolink.edu/
Lize Booysen, DBL (Committee Chair)
Carol Baron, PhD (Committee Member)
Brandelyn Tosolt, PhD (Committee Member)
221 p.
American Studies; Management; Organization Theory; Social Research
Power Distance; Culture; Great Man Theory; Leadership; Social justice Leadership; ANTi-History; GLOBE; Social Knowledge; Achievement Ascription; Post-Structural; Work Ethic; American Ethos; Employee Engagement; Management; Organizational Leadership

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  • Girton, J. M. (2019). United I Stand: An Investigation of Power Distance Value and Endorsement of the Great Man Theory Through American Social Identities [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1571322381565998

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Girton, Jeffrey. United I Stand: An Investigation of Power Distance Value and Endorsement of the Great Man Theory Through American Social Identities . 2019. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1571322381565998.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Girton, Jeffrey. "United I Stand: An Investigation of Power Distance Value and Endorsement of the Great Man Theory Through American Social Identities ." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1571322381565998

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