Deckard-Exploring Global Leadership Storytelling for Efficacy and Wellbeing among Organizational members

Αρετή (Arete) Journal of Excellence in Global Leadership | Vol. 1 No. 1 | 2022

psychological burnout. They also state that human resource professionals can give greater concentration to the role that stress plays in organizations.

Beyond institutions, individual leaders play a strong role in influencing wellbeing themselves. Ahmed et al., (2015) contends that multiple leadership styles with theoretical bases have influences on the employee wellbeing in corporate and higher education systems and deserve greater cross-the board review and comparison by researchers. They further offer that “despite the commonalities and differences among leadership theories, there is evidence that leadership style strongly but separately influences employee well-b eing” (Nyberg et al., 2011; Ahmed et al., 2015, p. 444). This combined evidence points to the need for further research regarding how global leadership storytelling might influence perceptions of self-efficacy and sense of wellbeing in the organization. A model simplifying this approach can be helpful in that same effort and is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Working Model for Evaluating Effects of Global Leadership Storytelling

Source : Author’s Illustration

Applying the model across cultures and to the organization This model and approach for analysing global leadership storytelling provides opportunities for additional research across cultures, beginning with this researcher’s upcoming efforts in Greece, Ireland, and the United States. The model also allows for organizations to similarly ask questions that explore their own use of the same. Applying the model in Greece, Ireland, and the United States Similar to Wong-MingJi et al. (2012) and the study of the effects of storytelling myths on leadership types across cultures, an examination of global leadership storytelling should appropriately take place in different cultural settings. This researcher is motivated by observations from study abroad experiences in Greece and Ireland along with prior experiences in the United States to begin more formal global leadership

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