Honors Program
[Honors-in-Discipline (Choose below)], Honors in Business
Date of Award
12-2016
Thesis Professor(s)
Charles Allen Gorman
Thesis Professor Department
Management and Marketing
Thesis Reader(s)
Charles Allen Gorman, Dana Harrison, Phillip Miller
Abstract
In this study, the subject matter evaluated is the difference between the United States and Latin America concerning the practice and acceptance of servant leadership. This research compares the practice and the acceptance of servant leadership between the United States of America and Latin America. In order to do this, a cross-cultural comparison was conducted between these two groups. The objective was to find the differences in the leadership styles of these two groups and subsequently analyze the results. The Hofstede’s cultural dimensions were used to be able to compare cultural differences, and understand why these differences appear in the societies of the two groups studied. A survey was conducted in order to gather different feedback from individuals of the U.S. as well as from Latin America. The approach for this research started by analyzing the results of the survey and dividing it into the two cultural groups. The results were tested using a one tailed t-test for the mean difference of independent samples. This research provides information on how and why leadership styles differ between the two groups studied and what are the characteristics that people seek in leaders of these two groups when testing servant leadership between the U.S. and Latin American samples.
Publisher
East Tennessee State University
Document Type
Honors Thesis - Open Access
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Merino, Ismael, "Cross-Cultural Comparison of Servant Leadership in the United States and Latin America" (2016). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 362. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/362
Copyright
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