Exploring the Impact of Cultural Factors on Leadership Effectiveness

This presentation explores the impact of cultural factors on leadership within an Australian supermarket retailer (Company ABC) facing challenges related to employee commitment and performance. The research aims to identify the relative impact of cultural factors on leadership styles and assess their effects on employee commitment. The presentation includes a literature review covering cross-cultural scenarios, international human resource management, and Hofstede's dimensions. It proposes a conceptual framework linking leadership theories, cultural norms, and organizational practices to employee opinions and leadership effectiveness. Research questions focus on the impact of cultural aspects on leadership and the impact of leadership style on employee performance and loyalty, employing a quantitative research design with a questionnaire-based survey of 100 employees. Ethical considerations are addressed, and a reference list is provided.

IMPACT OF
CULTURAL
FACTORS ON
LEADERSHIP
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OUTLINE OF THE
PRESENTATION
 Company background
 Research Problem
 Research Aims
 Literature Review
 Hypothesis testing
 Conceptual framework
 Research Question
 Research Design
 Ethical consideration
 Conclusion
 References
 Questionnaire

COMPANY ABC
 One of the key supermarket retailer in
Australian region
 It sells fruits & vegetables
 150 employees
 The company faces some issues related to
 Couple of employee commitments, loyalty &
reduced performance due to lack of
leadership perspectives. Barriers to be taken
care for a better organizational performance
are Employee Training, Decision making, and
cultural barriers.

RESEARCH PROBLEM
 Presence of cross-culture in the
organization
 Currently follows transactional
leadership style
 Absence of flexibility of rules and regulation
 Absence of creativity and inspirational activities
 Recommendations
 Improve leadership effectiveness in cross-culture
 To achieve high employee commitment and
enhance their performance
 Leadership style change from
transactional leadership style to
transformational style

RESEARCH AIM
 Identification of relative impact of the
cultural factors for leadership
 Assessment of the effects of leadership
styles on the commitment of employees and
related performance.

LITERATURE REVIEW
Culture
 Set of different beliefs, values, rules,
norms, symbols, and traditions
 Differenced in shared values and beliefs
leadership style

LITERATURE REVIEW
 Define Cross-cultural scenario at workplace
 International human resource management and
recruitment
 Understanding the way individuals of different cultures
interact with each other
 Concept of cross-cultural leadership has be introduced
 Different cross cultural strategies to be adopted
(Mihaela, 2014)
 Why cross cultural leadership is important
 Current State of Globalization
 Enhancing conversation between cross cultural
employees
 To become competent in cross-cultural awareness and
practice
 Prevailing the extent of Diversity

LITERATURE REVIEW
 Leadership style and cultural affects the level of
motivation and performance of the employees in the
organization
 Independent variable
 Leadership style and cultural factors (Hopkins, WE and
Scott, SG 2016)
 Dependent variable
 level of motivation and performance of the employees
 Communication skills
 Difference in communication skills
 Nonverbal cues
 Considered as an impolite behaviour if Interrupting in
between
 Latin cultures, interrupting depicts that lister is developing
an interest (Zhong, L, Wayne, SJ and Liden, RC, 2016).

LITERATURE REVIEW
Hofstede Dimensions
 Power Distance (Hofstede, 2011)
 Acceptance of power distribution
 Uncertainty Avoidance
 Flexibility in dealing with emergency situation or avoidance
 Long-term-Short-term Orientation
 The extent of long term and short term objective setting

LITERATURE REVIEW
Hofstede Dimensions
 Individualism-Collectivism
 Individualist- takes care of himself or herself, less of family r
group orientation, independent lifestyle
 Collectivist- Stay in a group and follow common goals and
norms
 Masculinity-Femininity
 Look for assertive, aggressive, competitive, and materialist
behavior in order to strive the success
 Gender discrimination and women empowerment

CONCEPTUAL MAP
Leadership
and cross
culture
Social
culture
leader
personality
and
behaviour
organizatio
nal
practices
strategic
view
Leaders
hip
effectiv
eness
Leader
ship
accept
ance
Norms
and
practices
Friendly
and
flexible
practices
Leadershi
p theories
for cross
culture
Employee
s opinion
in Cross
culture
HR
policies
Internatio
nal
policies

RESEARCH QUESTIONS
 What is the impact of cultural aspects on leadership?
 What is the impact of leadership style on employee
performance and loyalty?