Motivating and Leading across Borders: Managing Teams and Diversity
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Managing Teams and Diversity1Motivating and Leading across Borders: Managing Teams andDiversity Student NameCourseProfessors NameUniversityCityExecutive Summary
Managing Teams and Diversity 2Global leadership can be described as that ability to influence people both inside and out of the organizations that represent diversity in culture, political and institutional systems while achieving global organization goals. Leadership can be by individuals or by organizations. It alsorequires that there are people or some groups of people who are being led towards achievement of organization goals. Global leaders need to influence these people or groups of people who are spread across the world towards the common goal. Global leaders must be capable to influence the people or groups of people across different regions to achieve the company objectives. The global leader must recognize that those being led are different and thus the traditional ways of authority may not be effective. The different people’s cultures are different and so are their worldviews. The way to motivate these different people is also different due to their cultural views andpractices (Beechler & Javidan, 2007).Business borders are also different from the country or culture borders. Business complexities therefore arise which the effective global leader needs to have skills to handle them. To perform effectively in different cultural and country borders, the effective leader’s assumptions on other people and their culture, their language and their values will be put to test. The people being led are different in many important ways from the global leaders. The leaders therefore need to be transformed in the way they view themselves and view other people to be effective in order to appreciate other people’s world view and be able to work and motivate them to perform to their best (McCall and Hollenbeck, 2002, p. 22). People belonging to a certain culture seem to have an implicit criteria and attributes of leadership. The closer a leader is to that criteria, the more they will be accepted by the people. The effective global leader goes beyond being able to manage across different cultures but also
Managing Teams and Diversity 3different political and institutional systems. The leader must also know how to motivate these people to continue performing at their best.The global business is a fact of the present world and with it are opportunities and some challenges (Friedman, 2005 p9). To overcome the challenges, the global leader should be a global thinker and possess important global leadership competencies. They need to be able mobilize global resources and influence the people to work towards achievement of the goals of the organizations they work for. They must therefore appreciate the differences in people and in different countries and organizations if they are to succeed in their role and become effective global leaders. Table of ContentsExecutive Summary ......................................................................................... 2Introduction .................................................................................................. 4Diversity ...................................................................................................... 4Managing Diversity .......................................................................................... 5Motivating and Leading across Borders .................................................................. 6Conclusion ....................................................................................................11References ................................................................................................... 12Introduction
Managing Teams and Diversity 4Traditional boundaries are disappearing and competition in business now springs from any corner of the world thus businesses have to become more global to take advantage of international markets. While this brings with it opportunities, it also presents some complexities which require new ways of thinking and managing (Beechler andJavidan, 2007).In today’s global business environment, it is crucial that all leaders understand how to manage across different cultures. Different cultures determine the way of managing and of doing business. There is no one best way of managing and sometimes, the best universal management practices have failed (Trompenaars andHampden-Turner, 1997 p3). International managers have challenges operating on different premises from their own culture of origin, to the culture of the place they are working and also the organization culture where they are working. They must learn to adapt the organization to manage working in diverse multicultural groups. Leadership and culture are interconnected and leaders are in fact the main influencers of culture (Schein, 2010 p1). This paper will discuss leading and motivating diverse people across borders in globalorganizations. DiversityDiversity can be viewed as recognizing, acknowledging, accepting and appreciating the differences that are there between people and then accept value and celebrate them. These differences may relate to gender, age, race, gender, class, sexual orientation, religious practice, culture, physical abilities or disabilities and others (Bedi, Lakra, & Gupta, 2014 p103). Diversity is a challenge in modern day work places and this means all employees must be equipped with necessary skills needed to work in a cultural diverse work place. The managers have a more difficult task of appreciating and valuing multicultural differences in the people they manage andother stake holders and ensure everybody is treated with dignity. They therefore must be
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