Abstract
While the phenomenon of leadership is widely considered to be universal across cultures, how it is operationalized is usually viewed as culturally specific. Conflicting viewpoints exist in the leadership literature concerning the transferability of specific leader behaviors and processes across cultures. This study explored commonalities and differences in effective leadership processes, across - cultures in western – dominated leadership and non-western conceptualization of leadership. GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness) is a research program focusing on culture and leadership in 61 nations to provide core attributes of cultural dimensions on cross-culture and evidence for conceptual and measurement equivalence for all six leader behaviors in viewpoints of globalization. Data for the study is drawn principally from analytic literature reviews in leadership theory and its implication on cross-culture perspectives.
Highlights
As stated in the above quotations, leadership, as seen through the eyes of followers, cannot be studied without taking into account the effect of cultural context
Cross-cultural leadership helps organizations understand the cultural contingencies under which certain leadership approaches work better than others
Before embarking on a discussion of models for global leadership development, this study firstly provides a cross-culture in Western leadership theories and Non-Western theories of leadership to explore commonalities and differences in effective leadership processes, and present the features of leadership portrayed in viewpoints of globalization
Summary
As stated in the above quotations, leadership, as seen through the eyes of followers, cannot be studied without taking into account the effect of cultural context. Cross-cultural leadership helps organizations understand the cultural contingencies under which certain leadership approaches work better than others. Once leaders have created and generalized unifying cultural background, they can allow co-workers to change the organizational structure or system because they share common aims. The trust culture provides a unifying context within which leader and follower work and focuses effort toward agreed-upon goals, Cultural Influences on Leadership: Western-Dominated Leadership and. Before embarking on a discussion of models for global leadership development, this study firstly provides a cross-culture in Western leadership theories and Non-Western theories of leadership to explore commonalities and differences in effective leadership processes, and present the features of leadership portrayed in viewpoints of globalization
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