Adebowale Akande

• PhD; MILR
• Senior Professor at IR Research

This study explores South African managers’ expectations of prospective South African – United States international joint ventures.

Contemporary research considers leadership as a dynamic relationship between three components: leaders, followers, and the context, where the context encompasses complex interactions between organizational stakeholders and the outside environment (cultural, social, and political). Proficiency in social influence, power, and politics to navigate the...

The chapter emphasizes the importance of understanding power dynamics, political elements, and people analytics for optimizing the workforce. It highlights the creation of an empowering work environment that drives organizational success through a well-rounded training program rooted in human resource management principles. This chapter provides co...

The synergy between leadership and followership, shaped by power dynamics, politics, and influence, is important for navigating the complexities of organizational life. These interconnected roles, relying on ethical leadership to foster loyalty, trust, and shared vision within teams, form the foundation for effective teamwork and organizational suc...

This chapter emphasizes the significant relationship between psychology, political influences and individual contributions in shaping leadership within organizations and nations. It underscores the complexity of leadership in modern times, suggesting that understanding this connection is vital for comprehending the evolution of leadership across di...

Leadership research has often been critiqued for its tendency towards oversimplified and excessive positivity. However, leadership is widely acknowledged to have a political dimension across various entities, from small businesses to multinational corporations and governmental bodies. Utilizing the cultural biopsychological model facilitates a more...

American style representative democracies that place a strong emphasis on individual freedom and capital have grown in popularity around the world during the so-called “American century”. Liberal/neoliberal democracy’s future appears hazy (with a chance of thunderstorms or tornadoes). Numerous international observers from all political spheres—acti...

In U.S. DEMOCRACY IN DANGER: THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM UNDER ASSAULT, the contributors have shined 24 points of light on different aspects of Donald Trump, his impact on the world, and the consequences of his presidency on America. This chapter seeks a unifying theme that connects these points of light together. White Patriarchal Ideology is on...

Wars and battles are constant topics of news, personal stories, and history books. History lessons usually offer the same war sequence: causes of the war, major battles, names of the heroes, and the winners. In the light of psycho-historical knowledge and world affairs, these lessons glorify the processes of combat and celebrate nationalism. But, r...

Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child makes explicit reference to children’s right to say what they think about matters relating to the quality of their lives and to have these opinions taken into account in accordance with their levels of competence and maturity. The voting results showed that over two-thirds (68.1...

Humanity has been in a struggle with narcissism for the whole history of human civilization. One period where the spark of humanity flourished was in the years following World War II. However, social media and a world driven by a culture of social dislocation, narcissism and post truth is threatening the very premises of humanity.KeywordsCulture of...

The purpose of this study is to compare cross-cultural variability to learning in Australian, Canadian, Hong Kong, Nigerian and South African global samples using Learning Process Questionnaire (LPQ: Biggs, The learning process questionnaire (LPQ) manual. Australian Council for Educational Research, 1987; Australian Psychologist, 23, 197–206, 1988;...

Like indicators of time, season and weather, hours or days, and dates of spring, summer, fall, and winter, social indicators guide and monitor social conditions of human beings. This chapter presents a new composite indicator. The Happy Well-Being Index (HWI) is based on general utilitarian principle and the assumption that underlying cultural valu...

Successful leaders are the precursors of change and the source of brilliant ideas in any country’s future or global venture. By combining gestalt-related ideas and guidelines, this chapter shows that “good intentions” ahead of personal benefits and indeed ahead of the social realities are crucial. The manner a gestalt group leader puts his/her own...

This volume considers an attempt to integrate conceptual, theoretical, and empirical topics to the study and practice of global organizational science (global OS) - a field of inquiry that focuses on the organization as a whole and its interaction with people and with its environment worldwide. Taking a panoramic perspective of this 21st-century ch...

The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and the ensuing trial of Derek Chauvin for murder a year later has rubbed raw the bloodiest stain on the United States’ history and its world reputation. The nine minutes and 29 seconds during which Chauvin’s knee crushed the spark of life out of Floyd was not unusual in the history of the United States. B...

This volume is a collection of 32 original chapters, reporting on research conducted around the world by top scholars in over 50 countries in an effort to bring to bear a greater collective comprehension of how people in work organizations around the world think, feel, and behave (politics, leadership, stress and differing global contexts). It can...

Donald J. Trump: Notable or Notorious? “No one writes, or thinks, with the same passion, fearlessness and accessibility as Bruce Johansen and Ad Akande, figures who have been speaking truth to power on global environmental and indigenous issues for decades. You may scream at this work that Donald Trump is not all bad, but you’ll also learn much mor...

Nationalism: Past as Prologue. This volume provides a worldwide array of work on nationalism’s growth in various countries, usually by authors residing in them, or in the United States with ethnic ties to the nation being examined, often recent immigrants to the United States from them.

Psychodynamics, Training, and Outcome in Brief Psychotherapy , edited by D. MALAN and F. OSIMO. Butterworth-Heine-mann, Oxford, 1992. xiii + 336 pp. £25 hardback. ISBN 0 7506 1545 1. This book is an extraordinary volume, which reviews, analyzes and interprets the long-term results of a series of 24 brief therapies conducted by trainees under the su...

The purpose of this study was to compare level and type of fears in Nigerian and Kenyan children using the Fear Survey Schedule for Children, Revised (FSSC-R; [Ollendick, T.H. (1983). Reliability and validity of the Revised Fear Survey Schedule for Children (FSSC-R). Behaviour Research and Therapy, 21, 685±692.]). A total of 852 males and females b...

The purpose of this study was to compare level and type of fears in Nigerian and Kenyan children using the Fear Survey Schedule for Children, Revised (FSSC-R; [Ollendick, T.H. (1983). Reliability and validity of the Revised Fear Survey Schedule for Children (FSSC-R). Behaviour Research and Therapy, 21, 685±692.]). A total of 852 males and females b...

Monetary Intelligence Theory asserts that individuals apply their money attitude to frame critical concerns in the context and strategically select certain options to achieve financial goals and ultimate happiness. This study explores the bright side of Monetary Intelligence and behavioral economics, frames money attitude in the context of pay and...

This chapter shows that the manner an organisation approaches strategic planning matters. A case study reflecting on Joseph's analytic work that was rooted in stewardship, service and divine endowments, and not 'fire and fury games'. It develops theoretical findings drawn from biblical strategy and blended with contemporary strategic human resource...

Entrepreneurship is a stressful role for any person. Every enterpriser gets a pailful of stress, but how they handle it differ. To be in charge of leading people, making decisions, and determining the fate of your venture with your actions is not easy. The purpose of this paper is to fill this void by examining the depth and range of psychological...

Monetary intelligence theory asserts that individuals apply their money attitude to frame critical concerns in the context and strategically select certain options to achieve financial goals and ultimate happiness. This study explores the dark side of monetary Intelligence and behavioral economics—dishonesty (corruption). Dishonesty, a risky prospe...

Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child makes explicit reference to children's right to say what they think about matters relating to the quality of their lives and to have these opinions taken into account in accordance with their levels of competence and maturity. The voting results showed that, over two-thirds (68....

Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child makes explicit reference to children's right to say what they think about matters relating to the quality of their lives and to have these opinions taken into account in accordance with their levels of competence and maturity. The voting results showed that, over two-thirds (68.

Models of learning style or approaches to learning have been operationalized in the Learning Process Questionnaire (LPQ). Guided by an assumed framework, the authors examine the construct validity of the LPQ in Botswana and investigate the similarities and differences in the process of learning in a non-Western context. Six structural equation mode...

Stress and burnout have been recognized as problems for those employed in several professions (Cherniss 1980, Dewe 1987). However, little research has been conducted on stress as it affects entrepreneurs and small business owners , particularly in the developing world. This article presents the results of a study of stress among small business owne...

Data provided by 7380 middle managers from 60 nations are used to determine whether demographic variables are correlated with managers’ reliance on vertical sources of guidance in different nations and whether these correlations differ depending on national culture characteristics. Significant effects of Hofstede’s national culture scores, age, gen...

In this study, we develop a theory of Monetary Intelligence, and explore satisfaction with pay and life from the virtuous money smart perspective: In order to enjoy high pay satisfaction and life satisfaction, money smart individuals must become good stewards and curb their love-of-money motive. We collect data from 6,586 managers in 32 geopolitica...

Income inequality undermines societies: The more inequality, the more health problems, social tensions, and the lower social mobility, trust, life expectancy. Given people's tendency to legitimate existing social arrangements, the stereotype content model (SCM) argues that ambivalence-perceiving many groups as either warm or competent, but not both...

Emotion’s twin roles–‘unite and divide’ our daily life, thus motivating the good and the worst in human behaviour. The way one “feels” does influence the way one “acts” toward others. If this reasoning is correct, then behaviour can never be without motive or “motiveless.” Given the importance of emotions in human communication and decision making,...

Data from a study of 59 adolescent University students were correlated using Spearman rank-difference coefficient (rho) to assess the extent to which the future could be predicted from these measures. The 58 adolescents' score on the Satisfaction Questionnaire and Purpose-in-Life Test showed data significantly supporting the hypothesis and its rela...

Due to inconsistent and indeterminate findings, business researchers and cross-cultural scholars, have failed to take into account possible interaction between culture/gender and social behavior (self). We present a review and analysis of the relevant literature, followed by various psychometric analyses that demonstrate that the scale is a reliabl...

Managerial leadership within 56 nations is examined in terms of the sources of guidance that managers use to handle work events. Correlations between the sources of guidance that managers use and the perceived effectiveness of how well these events are handled are employed to represent their schemas and attributional propensities for effectiveness....

This paper examines the appropriateness for Nigerian students of the Self Description Questionnaire — 1 (SDQ-1; Marsh, 1988) and the Shavelson model of self-concept on which it is based. The results of an administration of the SDQ-1 to 462 Nigerian 12–13 year-olds are reported. The item scale correlations and reliability coefficients obtained were...

Given the history of the past, black South African students from different settings face unique academic and emotional climate. Using the Differential Emotions Scale (DES) which focuses on ten discrete emotions, and building upon Boyle's (1984) seminal work, this study reports a repeated-measure multiple discriminant function analysis for individua...

The purpose of the present study was to explore further the cross-cultural validity, consistency, and replicability of FAIDSS among students when assessing HIV/AIDS-related stigma and fear of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Lagos metropolis. Using a purposive method, participants in Lagos Metropolis were surveyed using a questionnaire and co...

By incorporating pay satisfaction at Level 1 and Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) at Level 2, we investigated the relationship between the love of money and self-reported corrupt intent among 6,382 managers in 31 geopolitical entities across six continents. Our significant cross-level three-way interaction effect showed that for managers with hig...

Managerial leadership within 56 nations is examined in terms of the sources of guidance that managers use to handle work events. Correlations between the sources of guidance that managers use and the perceived effectiveness of how well these events are handled are employed to represent their schemas and attributional propensities for effectiveness....

Using a data set derived from South African managers in our empirical analysis of potential U.S.‐South Africa agreements. The picture that emerges from the analysis, posits that the need for highest work performance, knowledge management and strict control is high and the South African government's administrative barriers seem to be the most crucia...

Xhosa‐speaking South African children in school settings face several academic and emotional challenges. These may be due to family obligation, conformity to authority figures and over expectations from parents, teachers and society. This study examines the differences in the number and types of reported fears and worries in 200 South African child...

How good gets better and bad gets worse: measuring the face of emotion Given the history of the past, black South African students from different settings face unique academic and emotional climate. Using the Differential Emotions Scale (DES) which focuses on ten discrete emotions, and building upon Boyle's (1984) seminal work, this study reports a...

How is the cultural construct of individualism-collectivism relate to self-esteem? This is a complex and challenging proposition. Self-esteem (i.e., a person’s global, evaluative view of his/her self), has resisted unequivocal definition or clear operationalization. There is a substantial literature on self-esteem hypothesis which may be stated thu...

At the onset of AIDS in 1981, it caught everybody (by surprise), with their pants down, openly, scientifically and literally. Fear |Stigma associated with HIV|AIDS continues to avert responses to the epidemic. Data (obtained in Tshwane metropolis) were used to test stigma|fear dimensions of an instrument. Factor analysis identified five foci of fea...

This study explores South African managers' expectations of prospective South African - United States international joint ventures. One hundred and three middle-level South African managers responded to a theory-based original survey questionnaire that included questions about various aspects of prospective US-South African joint ventures. US compa...

The present study has been conducted with an aim to compare responses of undergraduates from Swaziland to previously reported findings with similar groups of American, Nepalese, Nigerian and Hong Kong. A total sample of 310 males and females in the age range of 20 and 21 were selected from three universities in South Africa. Self‐esteem was measure...

Demonstrating the equivalence of constructs is a key requirement for cross-cultural empirical research. The major purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to assess measurement and functional equivalence or invariance using the 9-item, 3-factor Love of Money Scale (LOMS, a second-order factor model) and the 4-item, 1-factor Pay Level Satisfactio...

abstract Demonstrating the equivalence of constructs is a key requirement for cross-cultural empirical research. The major purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to assess measurement and functional equivalence or invariance using the 9-item, 3-factor Love of Money Scale (LOMS, a second-order factor model) and the 4-item, 1-factor Pay Level Sa...

Demonstrating the equivalence of constructs is a key requirement for cross-cultural empirical research. The major purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to assess measurement and functional equivalence or invariance using the 9-item, 3-factor Love of Money Scale (LOMS, a second-order factor model) and the 4-item, 1-factor Pay Level Satisfactio...

The Children Motivation Analysis Test (CMAT) is a newly developed paper and pencil (objective) instrument for quantifying human motivational dynamic traits among upper elementary school childeren. The CMAT is a downward extension of the SMAT and MAT questionnaires, which have put motivation measurement on a firm (Objective) empirical and theoretica...