A Report on Dimensions of National Culture and its Leadership Impact

This report examines the intricate relationship between national culture dimensions and leadership styles, emphasizing how cultural norms, beliefs, and traditions influence leadership behaviors. It explores various cultural dimensions, including power distance, individualism versus collectivism, and uncertainty avoidance, drawing upon Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory and GLOBE study to highlight their impact on leadership effectiveness. The report also discusses different leadership behaviors such as value-based, team-oriented, and participative leadership, advocating for the adoption of participative and team-oriented approaches to foster employee motivation and achieve organizational goals. Ultimately, the report concludes that leaders must consider national culture dimensions when selecting appropriate leadership styles to ensure effective task accomplishment and positive organizational culture. Desklib offers a wealth of similar resources for students seeking to deepen their understanding of leadership and cultural dynamics.

Dimension of National
Culture

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAINBODY....................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Culture refers to the norms, internal environment, tradition and beliefs which influences the
action and behaviour of the person such as leader to perform the activities of leadership for the
achievement of the goals (Adnan, Hay and van Staden, 2018). Leadership refers to the ability of
the person to manage, guide, leads as well as motivate employees along with make effective
strategies for the overall growth and development of the organisation.
This report covers the dimensions of culture and leadership as well as various leadership
theories which makes supportive leader.
MAINBODY
It has been determining that culture has multiple dimension such as primary features of the
culture id degree of the focus that is on a person or a group. as per the view point of various
author, it has seen that culture as two dimension which is Person task orientation in that cultures
of nation and organisations includes people interaction versus emphasising on the tasks. another
is Egalitarian Hierarchical refers to the degree that cultures Show hierarchical power vs shared
power in the organisations (Gaganis, Pasiouras and Voulgari, 2019) . As per the Hofstede which
provide model for the culture in which they identified five dimensions such as power, identify,
uncertainty, gender as well as time by this leaders and management change the culture in their
organisation in order to meet desired goals (GEERT HOFSTEDE’S: THE DIMENSION
PARADIGM, 2022).
In the recent times it has been seen the leaders of the company must be supportive to their
team members by allowing them to participate in decision making in order to work as a team
(Tung and Stahl, 2018). The culture and leadership are interlinked with each other as per the
research and in the books of famous author there is nine cultural dimensions. such as
assertiveness, Future orientation, Gender egalitarianism, In group collectivism, human
orientation, Institutional collectivism, power distance, performance orientation as well as
uncertainty Avoidance by which the leadership is decided in the organisation.
There are various different Dimensions of the leadership which are differ, low and high in many
countries as per the rules, market conditions, economy, environment, customer demands and
many more. In order to perform the function of leadership with in various dimension the leaders
can use various leadership theories and behaviour to make positive culture in their organisation.
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The various leadership behaviours are value based leadership, team oriented leadership,
participative leadership, human oriented leadership, self-protective leadership and autonomous
leadership (Watts, Steele and Den Hartog, 2020). There are various traits and characteristics of
the leaders honest, team builder, trustworthy, positive, supportive, communicative, intelligent,
coordinative and many more. It modern era the leaders must use participative and team oriented
along with values based leadership in order to encourage and motivate employees by behaving
like an effective leader in order to meet personal, group as well as company goal (Zhang, Weng
and Zhu, 2018).
CONCLUSION
As per the above presented information, it has been concluded that the leaders must
considered the various dimension of the national culture and leadership in order to choose best
leadership style in their organisation to accomplish the task in effective manner.
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REFERENCES
Books and journal
Adnan, S.M., Hay, D. and van Staden, C.J., 2018. The influence of culture and corporate
governance on corporate social responsibility disclosure: A cross country analysis. Journal of
Cleaner Production, 198, pp.820-832.
Gaganis, C., Pasiouras, F. and Voulgari, F., 2019. Culture, business environment and SMEs'
profitability: Evidence from European Countries. Economic Modelling, 78, pp.275-292.
Tung, R.L. and Stahl, G.K., 2018. The tortuous evolution of the role of culture in IB research:
What we know, what we don’t know, and where we are headed. Journal of International
Business Studies, 49(9), pp.1167-1189.
Watts, L.L., Steele, L.M. and Den Hartog, D.N., 2020. Uncertainty avoidance moderates the
relationship between transformational leadership and innovation: A meta-analysis. Journal of
International Business Studies, 51(1), pp.138-145.
Zhang, Y., Weng, Q. and Zhu, N., 2018. The relationships between electronic banking adoption
and its antecedents: A meta-analytic study of the role of national culture. International Journal
of Information Management, 40, pp.76-87.
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GEERT HOFSTEDE’S: THE DIMENSION PARADIGM, 2022. [Online] Available Through:<
https://hi.hofstede-insights.com/models>.
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