Posts Tagged "Cross-cultural Leadership"
Why understanding culture can open up new opportunities for leaders
Culture plays a key role in the practice of leadership and how it is viewed. There are two important facets of culture commonly considered in the context of leadership: our internal culture or work environment, and the environment an organization interacts with. Internal Culture First, every organization has its own...
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Up close and personal with Korean leaders
As my doctoral research quickly comes to a conclusion, I realize that I’ve had the privilege of meeting some incredible people whose lives have modeled a commitment to demonstrate virtuous leadership. While recently in Seoul, Republic of Korea, I met many extraordinary people, and their theories and practice of leadership...
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The Geopolitics of Leadership
This week I am off to Seoul, the Republic of Korea, for my final study intensive towards my Doctorate in Leadership and Global Perspectives through George Fox University. For three consecutive years we have travelled to different parts of the world to learn about the intricacies of leadership and the...
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The role of culture in leadership formation and how the adoption of certain virtues stimulates new areas of research
The discussion and debate on the notion of virtue continues to be just as relevant today for modern leadership as it has been over the centuries. In a series of essays we have established the importance of leadership virtues, and how their absence can cause considerable harm to their followers...
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How does culture influence an organization’s future-orientation?
The fifth and final cultural dimension is long-term versus short-term orientation; the GLOBE study calls it “future orientation.”[1] In building this construct, Hofstede, Hofstede, and Minkov, incorporated specific findings from the Chinese Value Survey (CVS) that was administered to students from twenty-three countries. In total, it measured 40 Chinese values...
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How cultures deal differently with uncertainty
The fourth cultural dimension analyzed by Hofstede, Hofstede, and Minkov, is uncertainty avoidance. This measures levels of tolerance in relation to ambiguity. While each member of society in every culture will at one time or another confront uncertainty, they must discover ways to manage it. One of the ways they...
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Measuring masculinity-femininity as a dimension of culture
The third of five cultural dimensions highlighted by Hofstede is assertiveness versus modesty. This is used to measure gender or masculinity-femininity as a dimension of societal culture, and the roles each culture assigns to them. This especially influences how leadership is exercised, and how it is perceived by its recipients....
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How do ‘individualist’ cultures behave differently to ‘collective’ ones?
We’ve been looking at the impact of national culture on leadership formation and how certain virtues are adopted and practiced. Individualist versus collective societies represent the second of five cultural dimensions that measures the power of the individual or group within that culture. This has nothing to do with the power of the state over...
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How cultures and leaders deal with inequalities differently
The first cultural dimension of the ‘Hofstede five’ we will consider is that of power-distance. Simply, it reflects how countries tend to deal with inequalities. To measure this the Power Distance Index (PDI) was created. Three questions were used to compose the survey: the first seeking to understand if the employee...
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Understanding cultural dimensions and their implications for leading
Realizing the important role of culture in shaping our values, thinking, and behavior, numerous scholars have sought to define different dimensions of culture to help address some of the problems common to all societies. In 1954, Alex Inkeles and Daniel Levinson suggested that there existed three basic problems that held...
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