Abstract
Our understanding of leadership has undergone a significant shift in the early part of the 21st century. An emerging perspective, dubbed Eco-Leadership, suggests leadership is a collective process involving both leaders and followers co-creating leadership. Because our beliefs and attitudes toward leadership affect how we lead, it becomes crucial to better understand the views youth have towards leadership, as they develop into our future leaders, to improve curricula and instruction. In this study, no relationship was found between youth attitudes and beliefs towards systemic and hierarchical thinking with respect to their preferred problem-solving style. These findings indicate youth may adaptively or innovatively associate leadership equally through systemic and hierarchical thinking. Further, neither being more adaptive nor more innovative implies one to be better at leading.
Citation
Friedel, C.R., Cletzer, D.A., Bush, S.A. and Barber, J.D. (2017), "Relationships between Eco-Leadership and Problem-Solving Styles of Gifted and Talented Youth", Journal of Leadership Education, Vol. 16 No. 4, pp. 60-75. https://doi.org/10.12806/V16/I4/R4
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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