David Robinson
David Robinson
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
Bond University
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Global Leadership in a Culturally Diverse World
David Robinson, Bond University and Michael Harvey, Bond University
DATE: May 2007
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Pre-print publication
Paper to be delivered at the 15th Annual CEEMAN Conference Globalization and Its Implications for Management Development in Istanbul, Turkey, 27-29 September 2007.
Also to be published in Management Decision.
ABSTRACT:
Cultural diversity affects the way leaders go about defining their roles as leaders and applying themselves to the responsibilities of leadership. Business has until now been contextualised within a particular set of values based on particular world views. The acceleration of globalization has created a chaotic state of change as businesses struggle to adapt to new paradigms of leadership, in which the established tried and tested approaches may no longer be effective.
These issues and others like them add to the challenge of leadership in ways that cannot appropriately be tackled by doing ‘more of the same’. Instead, they demand new approaches and hence usher in new leadership imperatives in response to the changing problems of existence. The research problem is that we need to adapt our leadership thinking to be effective in culturally-diverse situations. Hence, the research question becomes – what new skills should be adopted by business leaders so that they are equipped to deal with these new challenges.