LB5240: Cross-Cultural Leadership Workshop for Australia & Japan

This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of cross-cultural leadership, specifically focusing on the challenges and opportunities for Australian leaders conducting business in Japan. The workshop explores the importance of understanding cultural differences, traditions, and languages to effectively engage with Japanese counterparts and consumers. It delves into the agenda of the workshop, including leader attitudes, communication barriers, and time allocation. The presentation highlights the use of resources like cultural awareness and the Hofstede cultural dimension theory to facilitate cross-cultural leadership. It also contrasts the cultural dimensions of Australia and Japan, emphasizing the need for leaders to adapt and develop strategies for leading multicultural teams. The presentation concludes by summarizing key aspects of cross-cultural leadership, cultural dimensions theory, and the workshop process, offering valuable insights for leaders aiming to improve their global business strategies. The presentation emphasizes the application of the knowledge gained from the workshop to achieve future goals in the country of Japan. The presentation also includes references to support the analysis.

Cross Cultural Leadership

Introduction
 This presentation includes workshop related to the cross cultural
leadership among the Australian leaders that need to do business
in Japan.
 The criteria of workshop will be discussed in this presentation.
 The different aspects of culture related to Australia and Japan will
be included in this presentation.
 The agenda of the workshop will be described in this presentation.

Objectives of the workshop
 The workshop is conducted related to the analysis of the cross-cultural
leadership that help the Australian leaders to do the business with the
leaders of Japan.
 This workshop improves the interacting power of the leaders in the
business.
 Leaders need to work properly with the Japan leaders and improve
globalization in the business.
 This workshop helps in gaining information regarding cross-cultural
leadership.

Outcomes of Workshop
 The outcomes of applying the cross-culture leadership have attained the goals for
the future in the country Japan.
 Japan is very much updated in terms of the technology so it is essential by the
leaders of the Australian business to adopt the new technologies and techniques to
compete in the market of Japan.
 Australian leaders need to evaluate the culture and traditions over there so that to
deal with such people becomes quite easy

Continued…
 Japan is very much updated in terms of the technology so it is essential
by the leaders of the Australian business to adopt the new technologies .
 So, while operating the business in the japan the Australian leaders
need to evaluate the culture and traditions over there so that to deal with
such people becomes quite easy.
 They can deal with the local market and their consumers only when
they are aware of the local languages and it becomes quite easy to build
a relationship with their consumers.

Agenda of workshop
 The leader attitudes towards the workshop in Japan, their
appearance and their approaches are the major agenda.
 The title of the agenda is the barriers in communication with
the diversified people.
 The major agenda is to analyses the culture of Japan so that the
barrier of the communication in leadership can be removed.
 The time allocation for doing this agenda is 3 months as it
takes time to know about the culture of Japan.

Resources used in workshop
 The facilitators should use the cultural differences between Australia and Japan so
that cross-cultural leadership can be developed effectively.
 Cultural awareness is very important for the leaders as they are involving in the
business of the Japan.
 The major resources includes need the trust of advisor in dealing the operations of
the company, knowledge from the failure, diversified thought which can lead to
the success

Cultural Theory
 Hofstede cultural dimension theory is a framework cross-cultural
dimension theory is a framework used for cross-cultural
communication.
 This theory is developed for analysing the cross-cultural process.
 This theory includes several cultural values that include
individualism-collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, power
distance and masculinity-femininity.
 This theory helps in maintaining cross-cultural leadership among
leaders of Australia to understand the culture of Japan.

Continued…
 The cultural dimensions are too effective in the maintenance of the cross-cultural
leadership and improve the overall performance of the organization .
 This workshop defines this theory of cultural dimensions and guides the leaders to
use this theory.
 There is a lot of difference between Australia and Japan so it is important to
compare both the countries to identify the cross-cultural leadership

Cross Cultural Leadership
 The cross-cultural leadership includes a leader in
the implementation of an organization constituted
by the staff, different values and different cultural
backgrounds.
 Cross-cultural leadership is important for achieving
better advantages in the overall organization.
 This process of leadership also improves the
globalization concept in the organization.

Conclusion
 This slide includes the overall conclusion of the presentation.
 The various aspects of cross-cultural leadership theory has been defined in this
presentation.
 The cultural dimensions theory has been described in this presentation.
 The agenda and process of workshop related to cross-cultural leadership.

References
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 Farzianpour, F., Abbasi, M., Foruoshani, A. R., & Pooyan, E. J. (2016). The
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 Hanges, P. J., Aiken, J. R., Park, J., & Su, J. (2016). Cross-cultural leadership:
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