Lesson 5: Role of Leadership in Organizations PDF

**Lesson 5** **[ROLE OF LEADERSHIP]** -- The culture that organizations are embedded in influences their views about leadership. ***CULTURES MODEL*** -- influences their views about leadership. **PERSONAL CULTURE** -- is the shared combination of an individual's traits, skills, and personality fo...

**Lesson 5** **[ROLE OF LEADERSHIP]** -- The culture that organizations are embedded in influences their views about leadership. ***CULTURES MODEL*** -- influences their views about leadership. **PERSONAL CULTURE** -- is the shared combination of an individual's traits, skills, and personality formed within the context of his or her ethnic, racial, familial, and educational environments. **NATIONAL CULTURE** -- is a shared understanding that comes from the combination of beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviors that have provided the foundation for the heritage of a country. **INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE** -- occurs between participants from different organizations who share the same meanings and symbols. ***CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE*** **PERSPECTIVE OF INTEGRATION** (removes ambiguity by focusing people's attention on unifying values and assumptions) **PERSPECTIVE OF DIFFERENTIATION** (have different views, interpretation and practices) **PERSPECTIVE OF FRAGMENTATION** (interrupts coordination processes in environments brought by gaps or uncertainties) \***MENTORING** is a relationship between two (2) individuals with the goal of professional and personal development. \***MENTOR** is usually an experienced individual who shares knowledge, experience, and advice with a less experienced person or mentee. **[INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING]** -- Organizational performance and success are directly connected to the understanding of learning dynamics. **INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING** is defined as a dynamic process that occurs in cooperative inter-organizational relationships. **SITUATED LEARNING** puts thought and action into a specific a time and space. **DIALOGUE** important aspect of inter-organizational learning. **DIALOGUES** work as interactive joint learning processes, frequently spontaneously and without having rules, but limited by a serious intention to achieve mutual understanding. **[CULTURAL COMPETENCE]** -- There has been a great deal of focus on the global leadership competencies needed for success in the rapidly changing global environment. **GLOBALLY LITERATE** means seeing, thinking, acting, and mobilizing in culturally mindful ways. **GLOBAL LITERACY** -- is the sum of the attitudes, beliefs, knowledge, skills, and behaviors needed for success in today's multicultural, global economy. ***[Leaders must possess the ff. competencies:]*** \***Personal literacy** -- understanding and valuing oneself \***Social literacy** -- engaging and challenging other people \***Business literacy** -- focusing and mobilizing one's organization \***Cultural literacy** -- valuing and leveraging cultural differences **CHARACTERISTICS IN LEADING DIVERSE ORGANIZATION** Long-range inclusive vision Multicultural issue awareness Openness to feedback Willingness to change Mentoring diverse employees **MULTICULTURAL COMPETENCIES** ** AWARENESS** -- provides the basis for accurate opinions, attitudes, and assumptions. - Culturally skilled leaders have moved from being culturally unaware to being aware. ** KNOWLEDGE** -- provides the documentation and factual information necessary to move beyond awareness toward effective and appropriate change in multicultural settings. - Culturally skilled leaders possess knowledge about their social impact on others. ** SKILL** -- provides the ability to build on awareness and apply knowledge toward effective change in multicultural setting. - Culturally skilled leaders seek educational, developmental, and training experience. **Lesson 6**