Cultural Leadership and Followership

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Cultural Leadership and Followership
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Portfolio Case Study A: Cultural Leadership
A study that was carried out in the year 2004 by that of Global Leadership and
Organisational Behaviour Effectiveness stated that members of the different societies have
varying expectations from leaders owing to cultural values (Globeproject.com 2019). This
report discusses about different kinds of leadership styles that can help in the management of
a culturally diverse workplace. The report talks about inclusive leadership that can be useful
for an organization. The report also talks about the approaches that can help in leading
diverse workforce in Australia.
The leadership style that can prove to be appropriate for a culturally diverse
workplace is the democratic style of leadership where all the members take an active role in
process of the decision making. Cultural Leadership can be said to be a style of the leadership
that is rooted within the community along with the cultural identity. The cultural leaders in an
organization are committed to the aspect of the social justice and they serve the diverse needs
of people coming from various kinds of cultural backgrounds (Lambert 2016). The
democratic leadership can help the employees in exchanging the ideas along with the
opinions that can be advantageous for an organization. People coming from various cultural
backgrounds can express their ideas and the democratic style of the leadership helps in the
assimilation of various kinds of ideas within an organization (Wood and Wilberger 2015). A
diverse workforce helps in encouraging the aspect of the creativity that can help in the
development of an organization. A democratic leader can inspire trust among the followers
and it can help in the professional development of people of various cultures.
Each culture has shared motives along with values which are transmitted from one
generation to another. People from various kinds of cultures come to work in an organization
and inclusive style of the leadership can play an important role in an organization that is

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culturally diverse. Inclusive leaders are people-oriented and they can use skill set and the
knowledge of the various kinds of people who are from different cultural backgrounds. The
inclusive leaders are patient and they have an understanding nature that helps them in serving
the needs of the diverse people in an organization (Choi, Tran and Park 2015). The inclusive
leaders shows the element of optimism that helps in promoting collaboration in an
organization. The inclusive leaders provide motivation to the team by understanding the
opinions of the people of the various cultural backgrounds. Dialogue is integral to the culture
and an inclusive leader can set dialogue effectively in an organization (Javed et al. 2017). An
inclusive leader listens to the view point of the other people that makes the employees feel
encouraged within the framework of an organization. The inclusive leaders can facilitate the
discussions in a successful manner that can be useful for the various kinds of employees
within an organization.
Study has pointed out to the fact that people of different kind of cultural background
has different kind of expectation that can give rise to conflicts in an organization. The
democratic leadership style can suit a diverse workplace and it can help the employees in
voicing their concern in an organization. The employees take an active role in the area of the
decision-making that helps in the growth of the employees. It facilitates the process of
exchanging of ideas along with opinions that can come to be of use for an organization.
Cultures have their own distinct values that gets transmitted across the generations. An
organization has people of different kind of cultural background and inclusive style can come
to be of use for an organization. These kinds of leaders show the optimism that promotes the
aspect of collaboration within organization. They provide the motivation to team with the
help of their creative mind set.
It can be recommended that the organization should provide the equal opportunity to
the people of various cultures that can help in the effective performance of a company. There