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Leadership:Understanding its Global Impact

Chapter 7:Culture and leadership

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Learning objectives

• Define culture• Identify the impact of culture on

leadership• Discuss Hofstede’s and Trompenaar’s

cultural dimensions• Develop a multi-cultural organisation

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Chapter contents

• Spotlight: Dr Mohamad Abdalla

• Introduction

• Understanding culture

• Dimensions of culture

• Leader in action: Lady Carol Kidu

• Impact of culture on leadership

• Organisational culture

• The multi-cultural organisation

• Summary

• Case study: Ban Ki-moon

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Spotlight: Dr Mohamad Abdalla

• Highlights aspects of cross-cultural leadership

• Leadership requires commitment and an understanding of … bridging cultural differences

• Issues of cultural diversity are increasingly a reality for all leaders

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• Understanding culture is necessary for effective leadership

• Impacts on the context within which leadership occurs

• Leaders can be … the creators of organisational culture (Schein 1985)

Introduction

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… a set of basic assumptions—shared solutions to universal problems of external adaptation (how to survive) and internal integration (how to stay together)—which have evolved over time and are handed down from one generation to another

(Ed Schein 1985)

Understanding culture

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• Layers of culture

• Growing diversity of intercultural relations

• Debunking myths

Japanese and American management practices are 95% the same, and differ in all important respects (cited in Schneider & Barsoux 1997)

Understanding culture

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• Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner 2002– Identified indicators to describe and

explain different cultural behaviours

• different cultures have different attitudes to time and to the environment

• Geert Hofstede 1980; 1999– Identified five value dimensions

Dimensions of culture/How cultural dimensions work

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‘She gives hope. She’s a very good listener. She is accessible.’

Sir Moi Avei, Acting Prime Minister

Leader in action: Lady Carol Kidu

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• Leader behaviours are based on a set of values, many of which reflect the culture within which they lead

• England &Lee (1974) identified that individual values can affect leaders in six different ways

Impact of culture on leadership

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• Goffee &Jones 2000– Sociability – Solidarity

• Two dimensions create four different types of organisational culture

Organisational culture

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• Cox (1991) six key characteristics– Creating pluralism

– Achieving leadership diversity

– Creating full structural integration

– Creating full integration of informal networks

– Creating a bias-free organisation

– Organisational identification – Minimising intergroup conflict

Developing a multicultural organisation

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• Understanding culture is necessary for effective leadership

• Two myths have to be challenged• Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner

- range of dimensions• Hofstede - five value dimensions• Leaders needs to establish a fully

functioning multicultural organisation

Summary

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• How does Mr Ban’s reported behaviour reflect his Korean culture?

• What do you think are the greatest challenges facing the head of an institution like the United Nations?

• What are the challenges facing Mr Ban in creating a truly cross- cultural organisation?

Case study: Ban Ki-moon

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