Managing Leadership Challenges: A Comparative Study Between Confucius and Iqbal's Leadership Philosophy in Backdrop of CPEC
Keywords:
Management, Cross-cultural leadership, Iqbal leadership philosophy, Confucius leadership, Junzi, China Pakistan Economic Corridor project (CPEC), Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)Abstract
The progressive globalization presents numerous challenges of ethics and leadership performance by confronting organizations with complex and interdependent issues. With the initiation of CPEC, the realization of understanding the cross-culture, leadership, and management philosophies and practices emerged as one of the bottlenecks for the project team. This research paper is an attempt to analyse CPEC scenario in order to explore whether or not the Chinese thinking of Confucianism and Iqbal led Philosophy have shaped the development of leadership styles in China and Pakistan, respectively. This study not only explains and highlights different traits of leadership under a complex cross-cultural environment but also identifies the factors that determine a leader's principal style to address the challenges of today's leadership. It also examines the extent to which the mix of both traditional philosophies of Confucius and Iqbal will be successful to overcome the present and future leadership challenges.
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