Aspects of the impact of globalization on leadership: Maquiladora managers and pastors in Sonora, Mexico
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[Thesis]
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;supervisor McConnell, C. Douglas
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Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Intercultural Studies: United States -- California
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: 2008
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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234 pages
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
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Ph.D.
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, Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Intercultural Studies: United States -- California
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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To be effective in leadership amid the globalization-related transformation of Sonora, Mexico, it is necessary to understand the impact of globalization on leadership. This project describes the nature of modernity and cultural hybridization in Sonora, Mexico which provides the context for understanding the exercise of power distance and the full-range leadership theory there by maquiladora managers and engineers and pastors.The project presents a multi-dimensional, deeply historic, transformationalist conceptualization of globalization that precedes modernity and conceives of culture as deterritorial and hybrid. Then an ecclesiology is presented that conceives of the church as an image of Trinitarian persons, relations, power and sending and glorification to allow theological analysis of globalization and ecclesial leadership. To this are added leadership considerations: first, the history, conceptualization and enactment of power distance within Mexico's cultural hybridization process; second, the full-range leadership theory's transactional and transformational leadership dimensions, including a critique, indicators and the universality and particularity of the latter.The research methodology involves questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with maquiladora managers and engineers and their fathers along with focus groups and key informant interviews with Sonoran pastors. These data sets are analyzed independently in terms of modernity, cultural hybridization, power distance, and the full-range leadership theory. The usefulness of the Trinitarian ecclesiology was not sustained due to insufficient data and is therefore excluded from the analysis.Conclusions are drawn regarding the relationships between the globalization-related domains of modernity and cultural hybridization, and aspects of the leadership-related domains of power distance and the full-range leadership theory. Recommendations are then made for effective leadership among such managers, engineers, and pastors.