Leadership, Culture, and Ethical Environment Quiz

Leadership and Culture

• Leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal.
• Culture shapes attitudes and behaviors in wide-ranging and durable ways.
• Cultural norms define what is encouraged, discouraged, accepted, or rejected within a group.

Ethical Culture and Climate

• Ethical culture looks at how an organization demonstrates and teaches the extent to which it regards its values.
• Ethical climate is concerned with the “collective personality” of the organization.

Seminal Works

• Seminal Works are articles that initially presented an idea of great importance or influence within a particular discipline.
• Finding Seminal Works relies heavily on thoroughness in examining and synthesizing scholarly literature.
• It is recommended to avoid using a date limiter when searching for Seminal Works.

Globe Framework

• The Globe Framework provides managers with an additional lens to understand how to perform well in an international environment.
• It involves 170 researchers from over 60 countries who collected data on 17,000 managers from 62 countries.

Dimensions of Culture

• Performance Orientation is the degree to which societies emphasize achievement.
• Humane Orientation is the extent to which societies place importance on fairness, altruism, and caring.

Intercultural Sensitivity

• Intercultural Sensitivity is the concept of intercultural communication competence.
• It comprises 3 aspects: cognitive, affective, and behavioral abilities.
• It is a developmental process that transforms individuals from the ethnocentric stage to the Ethno-relative stage.

Components of Attitudes

Cognitive

• Represents our thoughts, beliefs, and ideas about something.
• Ability is presented by intercultural awareness.

Affective

• Deals with feelings or emotions brought to the surface about something, such as fear or hate.
• Ability is presented by intercultural sensitivity.

Behavioral/Conative

• Centers individuals acting a certain way towards something.
• Ability is presented by intercultural effectiveness or adroitness.
• Interaction attentiveness is a key aspect.

Ethnocentrism and Intercultural Communication Apprehension

• Ethnocentrism teaches individuals to bond tightly with their group members and feel proud of their own heritage.
• Intercultural communication apprehension refers to the fear of anxiety associated with interaction with people from different groups.
• Lack of information about one another during initial interaction leads to increased situational uncertainty.

Positive Emotional Responses

• Produced by intercultural sensitivity, demonstrating an individual’s willingness to acknowledge, recognize, respect, and appreciate cultural differences during intercultural interaction.

Essential Factors for Intercultural Communication

• Interaction engagement
• Respect for cultural differences
• Interaction confidence
• Interaction enjoyment
• These 5 abilities are essential for effective intercultural communication.