Modern Chinese leadership: Experienced best practices

Leadership is an act of subtlety carried out in a context. As a result, the behaviours associated with leadership tend to be hard to define and difficult to specify with any certainty, especially across cultures. This study generated over 400 stories describing the personal experiences of Chinese study participants of ldquogood leadershiprdquo behaviours. The resulting analysis yielded 11 thematic groupings of behaviours related directly to good leadership behaviour within a Chinese context. Results of the study suggest a continued impact of traditional Chinese values and virtues and a relatively diminished impact of traditional communist organizational values as modeled by behaviour.