LESSON 5

LEADERSHIP AND CULTURE

It is extremely important to recognize that Leadership Style is primarily determined by Culture and Sociological conditions. 
Different leadership styles will be effective in different cultural settings.
Certain styles will not be effective in certain cultural settings.
There are no right and wrong leadership styles, only better or poorer, or effective or non-effective styles.
Leaders must understand the cultural setting of their group and choose a style that will be effective and appropriate to that culture.   

The first point we wish to make is that Leadership Style in regard to the Church has two components:

We now examine the Sociological components that effect Leadership Style:


In time, every culture goes through sociological changes:
The following are some of the cultural changes that John Naisbitt drew attention to in 1982.
Each of these changes ahs been a part of our lives in the past two decades (20 years).

We could illustrate these changes in the following manner:

We have seen these changes in the life of the Church in the following areas:

The following chart demonstrates a variety of sociological cultural settings in which leadership style will differ:

We can see how these these cultural styles have impacted the Church on the larger denominational scene: