Challenges and Strategies for Multicultural Leadership in Organizations

Name 1
Leading and Managing People
Student’s Name
University
Instructor’s Name
Course
Date

Name 2
Leading and Managing People
Question one: Challenges to anticipate in creating a shared vision for this changed
organization?
One challenge that the manager will face is integrating the varying needs of business
units in different countries to a shared vision. The units exist in different countries with varying
business environment and cultures that may be challenging to integrate into one since it is
difficult to capture the collective mind and will. Further, Senge (1990, p. 10) adds that the
environment may offer different rapid changes that may threaten to craft the vision to pull
business needs towards the required organizational vision. The strategy may cause different
creative organizational tensions that may require different levels of energy to harness them
which may take longer or require more resources to achieve the intended outcome. Management
will be forced to develop ways of meeting the varying needs of the business units and align them
to the required goals.
Question two: Internal and external environmental factors to consider in carving
out a multicultural leadership path that will support success of the organization
Internal environment factors are systems, people, structures and conditions inside an
organization that are controlled by the company. These factors are associated with the
organizational culture and management style that may influence the leadership path to be taken
by the organization to achieve the intended outcome. On the other hand, external environmental
factors occur outside the organization may cause change since they are not under leadership
control (Shieh & Wang 2010, p. 299). These include economic forces, competition, customers,
political and social conditions. These factors affect growth and long-term sustainability thus the