2. Javanese Leadership Encountering Global Culture

Abstract

Keywords: local wisdom, leadership style, javanese traditional leadership, global culture. Abstract: The study deals with Javanese traditional leadership. As global culture penetrates nearly all aspects of social life including leadership, it could be stipulated that the cultural values of Javanese traditional leadership need to be negotiated with global values of leadership especially those derived from western scientific thinking and/or practices of leadership. The study thus attempts to scrutinize the ways in which Javanese traditional leadership has been negotiated. By using primarily Bass transformational leadership style to provide understanding of leadership practices in a more contemporary perspective, the study suggests that the negotiation involves three foremost ways namely (a) by adopting foreign values of leadership, (b) developing new hybrid values, and (c) maintaining genuine values of leadership albeit in new performance.