A Comprehensive Literature Review of Leader Development Efforts in Greater China

Leader development scholarship and practice has been studied in the Western cultural background for many years; however, there has been limited research on such topic based on Chinese culture. This thesis is aimed at finding out the leader development practice model in Greater China. 114 articles have been reviewed in this study, which focus on leader development theories in different topic areas to describe the current situation of leader development in Greater China. The main finding is that there is a large gap in this field, and there is research to describe different leadership theories applied in different organizations in China. But little is known about studies to learn or develop a training process.