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Summer/Fall 2018 The Journal of Values-Based Leadership Volume 11 Article 1 Issue 2 Summer/Fall 2018 July 2018 Summer/Fall 2018 Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/jvbl Part of the Business Commons Recommended Citation (2018) "Summer/Fall 2018," The Journal of Values-Based Leadership: Vol. 11 : Iss. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/jvbl/vol11/iss2/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Business at ValpoScholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The ourJ nal of Values-Based Leadership by an authorized administrator of ValpoScholar. For more information, please contact a ValpoScholar staff member at [email protected]. Volume XI | Issue II | Summer/Fall 2018 • SELECTED GUEST EDITORIAL LEADERSHIP...ON THE GOLF COURSE Ritch K. Eich — Thousand Oaks, CA, USA • LESSONS FROM HISTORY: THE STARTLING RISE TO POWER OF BENITO MUSSOLINI Emilio Iodice — Rome, Italy • WHAT'S BROKEN? NOT THE MOLD Susan Vroman — Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA • LEADERSHIP ETHOS AND CULTURALLY ORIENTED STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND RESEARCH PROPOSITIONS Ken Kalala Ndalamba — Luanda, Angola • METHODOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS OF CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP ETHICS Elmar Nass — Fuerth, Germany Ellen Kreuer — Cologne, Germany • AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP AND LEADERSHIP ETHICS: PROPOSING A NEW PERSPECTIVE Fr. Don Bosco Onyalla — Nairobi, Kenya • A MUSLIM PERSPECTIVE OF LEADERSHIP — INSIGHTS FROM OMAN Khalfan Al Asmi — Muscat, Oman Cam Caldwell — Alexandria, Louisiana, USA • TROUBLE'S CLARION CALL FOR LEADERS: JO ANN ROBINSON AND THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT Rita White Carver — Plano, Texas, USA Volume XI | Issue II | Summer/ Fall 2018 ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: • ARE LEADER BEHAVIOR AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE RELATED TO TEACHER EFFICACY? Edward E. Leonard — Mobile, Alabama, USA Wanda S. Maulding Green — Mobile, Alabama, USA • LEADERSHIP STYLES AND EFFECTIVENESS AMONG SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN EMPLOYEES Samuel Fadare — Lagos, Nigeria • PROSOCIAL BEHAVIORS: THEIR MOTIVATIONS AND IMPACTS ON ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Jennifer Vieweg — Charleston, West Virginia, USA • AN EXAMINATION OF LEADERSHIP THEORIES IN BUSINESS AND SPORT ACHIEVEMENT CONTEXTS Mary Kovach — Oxford, OH, USA • TRUST IN TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP: DO FOLLOWERS' PERCEPTIONS OF LEADER FEMININITY, MASCULINITY, AND ANDROGYNY MATTER? Ghulam Mustafa — Aalesund, Norway Babar Nazir — Islamabad, Pakistan • EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS EFFECT ON PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES IN A LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL Brian W. Lebeck — Maxwell AFB, AL, USA Nicolais R. Chighizola — Maxwell AFB, AL, USA • BOOK REVIEW LEADERSHIP CPR: Resuscitating the Workplace Through Civility, Performance, and Respect by Ritch Eich Reviewer: Amy Bentley,Temecula, California,USA • CASE STUDY Build Your Leadership Brand — A Case Study on India’s Megastar Chiranjeevi Professor M. S. Rao, Ph.D. – Hyderabad, India 1 MBA Pursuing the truth. Changing the world. SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFICATE As we turn our focus to becoming a socially responsible university, the Valpo MBA program is now offering a Certificate in Sustainability. After completing a bachelor’s degree, or while enrolled in a Valpo master’s program, a student may choose to take four additional courses – twelve (12) additional credits – and receive the graduate Certificate in Sustainability. 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The JVBL is dedicated to supporting people who seek to create more ethically- and socially- responsive organizations through leadership and education. The Journal publishes articles that provide knowledge that is intellectually well-developed and useful in practice. The JVBL is a peer-reviewed journal available in both electronic and print fora (fully digital with print-on-demand options). The readership includes business leaders, government representatives, academics, and students interested in the study and analysis of critical issues affecting the practice of values-based leadership. The JVBL is dedicated to publishing articles related to: 1. Leading with integrity, credibility, and morality; 2. Creating ethical, values-based organizations; 3. Balancing the concerns of stakeholders, consumers, labor and management, and the environment; and 4. Teaching students how to understand their personal core values and how such values impact organizational performance. 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