Challenges of Leadership and Management in Global Environments

This essay discusses the challenges faced by leaders in global environments and explores the role that enterprise leaders can play in overcoming these challenges. It highlights the importance of cultural understanding, team building, and effective communication in managing diverse teams and navigating the complexities of the global business environment.

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Discuss the challenges of leadership and management roles in global
environments. What role can enterprise leaders play to overcome these
challenges?
After the era of globalisation and liberalisation, the business hands are extended to the
every corner of the world. It is easy to establish a stake in the minds of people if a global
leader is well acquaint with the culture of that particular country. On the other hand, wrong
attitude or behaviour according to the ethics of the country and the organisation can spoil the
image of the global leader as well the business (Watkins, 2012). A leader in the global
environment faces problems in team building, team management, and development of the
team. A global leader has to work with different cultured people even inside the organisation.
A leader can motivate the employees to say in Apart from this, a leader will faces to face
complexities. The entire leader group is likely to be more responsible to work across the
country’s borders, improve the efficiency, manage the government compliance responsible to
the complained of many regulations, and to remain ahead of all the competitors. With the
global business environment, al leader has to consider the challenge of culture and other
considerations that can have a negative effect. This essay has described the main challenges
faced by the global leaders. Further, a discussion on how these challenges can be resolved
(Watkins, 2012).
With the increasing globalisation, business organisation has undertaken severe
changes in their operations. Global leaders must be prepared to move along with the fast-
moving business trends, competitive and complex business environment. As leaders plays an
important role in competitive advantage of the organisations that come up with best people.
While dealing with the diversified culture and geographical arena, a leader has to might have
to use different culture and different language to communicate in order to execute any plan

(Bernhardt et al., 2016). There was time of closed economy when global leaders were not
required. Further, when overseas projects were increased then only limited leaders had formal
leadership development process. Diversified sort of plans demanded minority where and
global and cross- cultural leaders become important. Some major challenges based on time of
uncertainty and risk that has affected the efficiency of the operations. Multi-cultural and
diverse teams are two major challenges at the workplace. Organisational communication
focus on employee engagement. This term is used to elaborate whether the people from
different cultures comply with the different mindsets, this tendency of the employees’
increases or decreases the challenges of the global leader. it involves understanding of vulture
and language that affect the organisation (Bernhardt et al., 2016). Leaders are also
responsible for earning the trust of the stakeholders whether they are internal or external. A
leader faces huge problem while handling the culture conflicts, communication barriers,
managing the dynamic business environment, creating the shared goals and finally
implementing the shared goals in the changing environment and managing a stable relation
between local and corporate. For example- A high-pitched tone can be rude in one country
whereas, it can be just an order placed to the lower management. This differs due to
difference in cultures of different countries. Another example- when Americans leaders move
overseas then they are out of the political system of the home country that further diminishes
the prospects to call and climb the corporate ladder. On the other hand, Japan treat the return
expatriates as tainted by its international experience. Europeans are not easy and more
comfortable with the international exposures so that as they strongly believe that emergence
of Multi environment and leader can born that spirit and it has also get fit working at the
international level (Berson, Halevy, Shamir, and Erez, 2015).
The problem faced by the leaders who operate internationally can be resolved with the
help of development of effectiveness, inspiring others, training the employees, leading the

team in a right direction, guiding changes, and managing both internal and external
stakeholders. A leader should be creative enough so that it can develop some relevant skills
such as strategic thinking, decision-making, and time management that can make the work of
a leader more effective (Boies, Fiset, and Gill, 2015). In order to overcome the challenge of
dealing with the people who are differently cultural diversified, it is important for a leader to
make employee feel like equal at the workplace that further inspires them to work together as
a team. The act of motivating and inspiring other employees can nullify the effect of the
effect the empowering nature of language. For instance- A global leader should hire a
translator or a single language can be considered as the mode to communicate into the team.
A flexible working hour and incentives can be motivating for the employees. In order to
develop the employees, a leader can ensure smart working that includes mentoring and
training to different virtual teams also as well as the expatriate employees. A leader strives to
manage, mobilise, lead the changes, mitigating the uncertainty of the changes, understanding,
overcoming the resistance to guide and promote changes (Boies, Fiset, and Gill, 2015). A
global leader deal with employee`s reaction to change and tries to describe the potential
opportunities which lies in the environment and it can be grabbed only if leader and
employees are adaptable enough. A leader manages the politics occurring to manage the
stakeholder`s relationships. For example- getting the managerial support and buy-in support
from groups, individuals, and departments. More such potential attributes that can help the
leader and organisation to sustain the global environment are proactive, creative, confront the
conflict safely, look into several opportunities so that he can try to collaborate, and a leader
should always take some personal time. Apart from this, a leader should have effective
communication skills (Blomme, Kodden, and Suffolk, 2015).
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that a leader has to nurture its
activities so that it can decide the path goals. Objective formation is significant so that goals

can be decided and achieved. Globalisation also promotes delegation process. Infact, it can
more profitable and productive that empowering people to whom the work is actually given.

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