Leadership across Cultures

The authors present their case studies and long-term research on leadership in global context. The book focuses on individual attributes and competencies of global leaders, the role of power and social influence in managing people, leaders of public institutions in critical situations and during changing organizational culture.

Leadership in organizations has become a significant topic in scientific research over the last few decades. As businesses continue to expand their operations beyond their home countries, the topic of attracting, maintaining and developing people who can successfully perform in global environment is receiving more and more attention. It's important to acknowledge that people from different cultural backgrounds have different expectations of what leadership looks like in various national and organizational contexts, e. g. in public institutions, in multinational companies or in higher education.

By way of illustrating the challenges of leadership, this book will examine several issues related to individual perspective of leadership (competencies and attributes of leaders), mezzo/institutional perspective (leaderless organizations, leading public institutions, leaders of higher education, expatriates on foreign assignment) and macro/national perspective (European and Chinese cases).

This book is a result of the collective efforts of thirteen scholars representing different universities and it is aimed at academics, students, managers and entrepreneurs engaged in intercultural interactions.

Leadership Cross-cultural interactions Expatriate Academic leaders Social influence Powerful leaders Leaderless organizations Leaders in public institutions GLOBE Chinese leaders Leaders` competencies and attributes