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    Globalization has created challenges for leaders, requiring them to understand diverse business, political and cultural environments worldwide. The Project GLOBE studied leadership across 62 societies and found that while some core leadership attributes are universal, it is important for leaders not to rely on cultural stereotypes. Diversity in organizations can provide benefits like increased productivity but also challenges if not properly managed. Effective diversity management requires promoting inclusion, understanding biases and prejudices, and fostering appreciation of differences. For women seeking leadership roles, barriers include a lack of opportunities, higher performance standards, and bias in selection processes. However, some theories posit that feminine traits of empathy, consensus-building and sensitivity could provide advantages for effective modern leadership.

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    Globalization has created challenges for leaders, requiring them to understand diverse business, political and cultural environments worldwide. The Project GLOBE studied leadership across 62 societies and found that while some core leadership attributes are universal, it is important for leaders not to rely on cultural stereotypes. Diversity in organizations can provide benefits like increased productivity but also challenges if not properly managed. Effective diversity management requires promoting inclusion, understanding biases and prejudices, and fostering appreciation of differences. For women seeking leadership roles, barriers include a lack of opportunities, higher performance standards, and bias in selection processes. However, some theories posit that feminine traits of empathy, consensus-building and sensitivity could provide advantages for effective modern leadership.

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    Globalization has created challenges for leaders, requiring them to understand diverse business, political and cultural environments worldwide. The Project GLOBE studied leadership across 62 societies and found that while some core leadership attributes are universal, it is important for leaders not to rely on cultural stereotypes. Diversity in organizations can provide benefits like increased productivity but also challenges if not properly managed. Effective diversity management requires promoting inclusion, understanding biases and prejudices, and fostering appreciation of differences. For women seeking leadership roles, barriers include a lack of opportunities, higher performance standards, and bias in selection processes. However, some theories posit that feminine traits of empathy, consensus-building and sensitivity could provide advantages for effective modern leadership.

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    Gender, Diversity & Cross Cultural Leadership

    Gaurav Sehra
    MHRM, IIT KHARAGPUR, 2015-17

    Introduction

    Globalization is central to the discussion of


    culture and leadership (increased
    interdependence (economic, social, political)

    No unified theory, we can only discuss culture


    and talk about its impact on leadership

    Culture and Leadership (Globalization


    challenge)
    Globalization has created three challenges

    Leaders must understand business, political, and cultural


    environments worldwide.
    Leaders must learn the perspectives, tastes, trends, and
    technologies of many other cultures.
    Leaders must be able to work simultaneously with people from
    many cultures.
    Leaders must be able to adapt to living and communicating in
    other cultures.

    Project GLOBE (Global Leadership and


    Organizational Behavior Effectiveness)

    GLOBE Study of 62
    Societies.

    Global Leadership
    and Organizational
    Behavioral
    Effectiveness.

    Responses of
    17,000 managers in
    950 organizations
    representing 62
    different cultures.

    GLOBE

    Not everything which has made us successful at home needs to be


    unlearned in the new global environment.
    Many core leadership attributes will set you in good stead anywhere
    in the world (honesty etc)
    Easy to fall into cultural stereotypes If you dont understand the
    cultural environments of your team members.

    GLOBE study

    6 Tips to help you become multi-cultural


    leader

    Prepare yourself for the new role both intellectually


    and emotionally

    Preserve empathy for others by understanding their


    needs and how they feel in different situations

    Research, respect and understand the new cultural


    values that you are working in

    Dont substitute technology for the value of face-toface meetings.

    Be brave of your own limitations. Being honest about


    your strength and weakness

    Take care of yourself, focus on your health and wellbeing as well as the job.

    Diversity Defined
    Diversity is defined as
    acknowledging,
    understanding, accepting,
    valuing, and celebrating
    differences among people
    with respect to age, class,
    gender, physical and
    mental ability, race,
    sexual orientation,
    spiritual practice, and
    public assistance status.

    Diversity Benefits

    Diversity has the potential of yielding


    greater productivity and competitive
    advantage.
    Change will increase work performance
    and customer service.
    Diversity in a workplace can reduce
    lawsuits and increase marketing
    opportunities, recruitment, creativity, and
    business image
    Organizations have to develop new and
    creative ways to manage diversity

    Diversity Challenge

    Managing diversity is simply more than


    acknowledging differences in people.
    Involves recognizing the value of
    differences, combating discrimination, and
    promoting inclusiveness.
    Negative attitudes and behaviors can be
    barriers to organizational diversity.
    Prejudice, stereotyping, and
    discrimination should never be used by
    managers for hiring, retention and

    Required Tools for Diversity


    Management

    Effective staff i.e. staff must understand discrimination and its


    consequences.
    Staff must recognize their own cultural biases and prejudices.
    Mainly depends upon managers ability to understand what is best
    for the organization based on teamwork and dynamics of workplace.
    Manager should be self aware and staff need to be aware of their
    personal prejudices.
    Organizations need to develop, implement, and maintain diversity
    practices.
    Managing diversity is more than providing equal opportunities and
    affirmative actions.
    Safe places for associates to communicate i.e. social gatherings and
    business meetings.

    Managing diversity continued.

    Fostering appreciation and tolerance

    Providing equal opportunity

    Identify biased beliefs and role expectations for


    women and minorities

    Promote understanding of different values and


    beliefs

    Encourage and support others who promote


    tolerance of diversity

    Gender & Leadership

    The strong tendency to favor men over women in


    filling high-level leadership positions has been
    referred as glass ceiling.
    Assumptions about inherent differences between
    men and women (gender stereotype) & assumptions
    about appropriate behavior for men and women
    (role expectations).
    For a long time it was assumed that effective
    leaders must be confident, task-oriented,
    competitive, objective, decisive, and assertive, all of

    Gender and leadership (Barriers for women)

    Lack of opportunities to gain experience and visibility in types


    of positions that would facilitate advancement
    Higher standards of performance for women than for men
    Exclusion of women from informal networks that aid
    advancement
    Lack of opportunities for effective mentoring
    lack of strong efforts to gain access to leadership positions
    Difficulties created by competing family demands
    Bias to select and promote individuals who are similar to the
    managers who make decisions.

    Theories of feminine advantage

    Women are more likely than men to possess the


    values and skills necessary for effective
    leadership in modern organizations

    Feminine advantage theory contend that


    women are more concerned with consensus
    building, inclusiveness and interpersonal
    relations

    Women are believed to have more empathy, rely


    more on intuition, and be more sensitive to
    feelings and the quality of relationships

    Feminine values are compassion, kindness,


    nurturing and sharing

    Thank you !

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