According to Adler (1984), there has been a history of Western bias in leadership
study: Adler implied that the consideration of ethics should be examined to create an
unbiased, cross-cultural analysis of self-leadership. In view of leadership research
history, my study will look through the lens of how self-leadership is practiced not only
from a Western perspective, but also from that of the home country. Alves et al. (2006)
found that there is no instrument of self-leadership for a country-by-country basis
applicable to other cultures (p. 357). My qualitative research study was designed to
answer cross-cultural questions about the practice of self-leadership. As noted by
Houghton and Neck (2006) little is known about the phenomenon of how self-leadership
is practiced in other cultures, and there is a need for further research.