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Leadership - Culture
Leading Across Countries and Cultures
| Question | Answer | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ed Shein | Leaders can create/amend/destroy cultures | |||
| Three points about leading abroad | Culture of a company and area can be different | Cultures are taught, not innate | LEaders must figure of the values, how culture is currently communicated and then identify affects of this culture leadership | |
| Gosling & Mintzberg, 2003 | Worldly Leadership | Look at context rather than culture | Responses based on current conditions, environmental issues, and difference rather than homogeneity. | |
| Conclusion | Culture should only be used to gain insight into values | Research over-simplified it. Does not discuss how leaders can shape culture | ||
| GLOBE Project Insights | Resulted in 21 leadership themes which were grouped into six over-arching styles. | Large amount of research done so offers facts rather than cultural stereotypes | Methods were the same in each country | |
| Limitations of GLOBE Project | All about perception - doesn't show if leader did a good job for the organisation or was just a good leader | Focuses on certain industries. | A lot of detail is lost to summarise and group results | Specific behaviors can be seen differently in different cultures. |
| Brodbeck et al, 2000 | Clusters top 5 attributes |