International Business Management

Year: 2016
Volume: 10
Issue: 17
Page No. 4079 - 4084

Outstanding Leadership Traits of a Superman in the History of the World, Cyrus the Great

Authors : Enayat Allah Aghaei and Alireza Shirvani

Abstract: In order to provide leadership model based on the teachings of Cyrus the great, mixed research method is used. To do this, first of all among relevant concepts128 teachings obtained by using inductive content analysis and the available assumptions in the three general components of leadership. In the population of Experts the snowball technique was used to access the authorized number of samples and also 13 people worked on the implementation of the Delphi technique. Verification and arrangement of the extracted variables in the form of three components in Delphi questionnaire were done by using experts’ opinion and its validity were approved by professors and experts of management, culture and history. Its reliability was also confirmed by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient 0/961. For consensus in experts’ opinion, the three-stage Delphi technique was used and in the final phase approved factors were identified by 75% of the experts that in the field of leadership traits 8 variables were referred to as “important”. To determine the degree of the importance of elected leadership traits, the similarity index was calculated. The results show that the attributes of “integrity of the leader” and “self-restraint and patience”, have the highest and lowest ranking among eight favorite leadership traits and some suggestions were made in line with the results. The result show that what now known as the leadership traits by the scientists, Cyrus the great had them altogether and this is a source of pride. We hope that this learnings were used not to blame the past but as a reminder to take the responsibility of our future.

How to cite this article:

Enayat Allah Aghaei and Alireza Shirvani, 2016. Outstanding Leadership Traits of a Superman in the History of the World, Cyrus the Great. International Business Management, 10: 4079-4084.

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