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Dr. Juin Choudhury

X I M E -Bangalore

Cross-cultural Leadership in Global

Business: Issues and Challenges

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Objective

Creating and developing a multicultural leadership

style for corporate success, profit, and growth in

the organization to enhance business incompetitive and global market.

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Methodology

Referring study of cultural sensitivity and cultural-

specific leadership style.

Understand intercultural difference and to buildtrust and increase good Leader for business.

Studied effectiveness of cross cultural Leadership

and their contribution in global workplace.

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Research QuestionsIn recent years, research has been aimed at towards

differences of leaderships style in cross cultural leadership

Are differences attributable to different cultures or to

different stages of corporate development?

How do leaders in other countries attempt to direct or

influence their subordinates? Are their approaches similar as

like other countries?

What we are going to discuss?

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FindingsAttitudes of European Managers towards

leadership practice:

The evidence indicates that European managers tend to use

a participative approach.

The researchers investigated four areas relevant toleadership:

Does leader believe that employees prefer to be directed

and have little ambition or do they believe that

characteristics such as initiative can be acquired by most

of people regardless of their traits and abilities?

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Does the leader believe that detailed, completeinstructions should be given to subordinates and that

subordinates need only this information to do their jobs, or

does the leader believe that general directions are

sufficient and that subordinates can use their inactivate in

working out the details?

Does leader support participative leadership practices?

Does the leader believe that most effective way to

manage employees is through rewards and punishment or

that employee respond best to internally generated

control?

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Leadership styles in America

Leadership styles are more varied in America

today than other country. In America there are five:

Directive

Participative

Empowering

Charismatic

Celebrity (superstar)

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Leadership style in Japan

Japanese managers have much greater belief in the

capacity of subordinates for leadership and initiative than

do managers in most other countries.

However this study found that the Japanese respondents

scored highest on the four areas like Capacity for

leadership and inventiveness, Sharing information and

objectives,

Japan is well known for paternalistic approach to

leadership.

Japanese culture endorses a high safety or security

need

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Leadership approaches in India

Indian firms indicatethatthe mosteffective leadership style

used by managers is participative leadership style.Participative

leadership style increases the job satisfaction oftheemployees

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Some characteristics for Future Global

Leaders could be

Active people skills

Expertise in languages

Experience in or exposure to multicultural

environments

Multidisciplinary perspectives

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Conclusion

The most experienced leaders understand the value of

gaining objective insight into perceptions and beliefs of

employees throughout their organizations.

Some experts with their rich experience as cross culturalfacilitators, researchers and executive coaches, can serve

as trusted advisors guiding senior management teams on

how to develop cross cultural leadership to drive profitability

and global competitiveness.

They started taking initiative to give consulting model to

guide senior management in achieving leadership, culture,

and organizational goal.

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Questions ??

Thank you