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1LITERATURE REVIEWBird, A. and Mendenhall, M.E., 2016. From cross-cultural management to globalleadership: Evolution and adaptation. Journal of World Business, 51(1), pp. 115-126.Main thesisCross cultural management is considered to be an effective tool to extract more efficiencyand innovation from the employees. The practice of cross cultural management is verysignificant in the context of organisational set up of a business organisation. It can be argued thatwith the elapse of time, the perception and understanding regarding cross cultural practice isgoing to be transformed dynamically (Ang and Van Dyne 2015). However, there is a historicalbackground of this shift in understanding. In fact, there is an array of definition about cross-cultural management. Nevertheless, the general definition popular among the scholars identifiesthe broadest classification of this kind of management with an ample reflection on internationalstrategy and international human resource. It can be referred as the difference of cultural practicebased on a comparative study of the people from different countries (Reiche et al. 2016). It canalso be argued that the cross cultural management is also defined as international management(Calvin, Beale and Moore 2017). The cross cultural management system expands the genre ofworking dynamic of a country and in respect to this it is able to develop a universal workingsystem irrespective of nation, ethnicity and gender. At the individual level as well as inorganisational aspect the cross cultural management encompasses psychology, sociology andanthropology (Moran, Abramson and Moran 2014). In addition to this, the cross culturalmanagement also comprises the facets of uni-cultural, comparative and intercultural. Uniculturalresearch focuses on organisational management in a single country where as comparative crosscultural study reflects a relation between two or more countries. In case of the multi-cultureparadigm, it symbolises the idea of intercultural study is associated with the interaction among

2LITERATURE REVIEWorganisational members from two or more countries (Tjosvold 2017). In course of the discussionit can be attributed that the core concept of a global leadership is attributed by the understanding,competency, traits and skills related to maintain a diverse work culture.Besides this, the cross cultural management is closely linked with the global leadership. Itcan be articulated that the nature of the cross cultural leadership is purely focused on theassociation of a number of people from two or more countries. Therefore, it requires an effectiveand efficient leader to control the diverse workforce. In this context, the leader must havepossessed the notion and perception of international aspects and it is imperative for him to get aclear idea about the pros and cons of enjoying a multicultural workforce (Lisak and Erez 2015).As the definition of cross cultural management has been transformed a lot with the growingnature of globalisation. In response to this the function of the leader has also been changed itscourse with the transformation. However, after 2000 with a strong presence of globalisation theleadership becomes global and ushered a new paradigm in the name of Global leadership (Tuleja2014). There are a number of factors that can help to establish a good global leadership. In thiscontext, communicating with the employees and procure some norms and regulations in order tomake it successful are pivotal for the global leader to maintain. Argument of the bookIn this regards, the book is going to underline the important aspects of the globalleadership and find out the interrelation between cross cultural management and globalleadership. Before highlighting the core concepts of global leadership and employee diversitymanagement the article illustrates the development of the concepts and describes thetransformation of perception about each concept. For instance, in the aftermath of the Second

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