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Ethiopia’s unique cultural and historical leadership contexts have molded its conception of leader power, a conception differing significantly from Western leadership models’. This paper explores shepherd leadership’s response to leader authority in Ethiopia compared to that of Transformational Leadership (TL) and Greenleaf’s Servant Leadership (SL). An overview of Ethiopia’s cultural and historical leadership contexts precedes an examination of TL and SL’s conceptions of authority in Western and Ethiopian leadership literature. A review of shepherd leadership and authority in ancient and current literature follows. A process of ‘problematization’ (Alvesson & Sandberg, 2011) demonstrates that TL and SL’s postmodern view of authority inadequately addresses Ethiopia’s high power distance context, whereas shepherd leadership provides a robust and culturally appropriate response. This is the first known examination of shepherd leadership in Ethiopia and the first exploration of TL and SL’s conceptualization of authority and power in Ethiopia’s hierarchical context. Three managerial applications are proposed.

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