University Assignment: Global Business Leadership Environment Report

This report examines the characteristics of effective leadership within a global business environment, focusing on self-assessment and the development of crucial skills. The student identifies their existing strengths, such as a global mindset, self-awareness, confidence, and communication skills, while acknowledging areas needing improvement. The report then delves into four key characteristics essential for leading in a multicultural setting, as learned in previous workshops: overcoming ethnocentrism, planning for cultural differences, fostering personal connections, and developing high cultural intelligence (CQ). For each characteristic, the student outlines specific action paths to enhance their leadership capabilities, including seeking diverse perspectives, preparing employees for cultural differences, building trust through relationships, and increasing communication with employees from different cultures to understand their needs and mindsets. The report concludes by referencing relevant academic sources to support its findings.

Running head: MANAGEMENT IN GLOBAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Management in Global Business Environment
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Table of Contents
Answer to Question 1......................................................................................................................2
Answer to Question 2......................................................................................................................2
References........................................................................................................................................4

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Answer to Question 1
It needs to be mentioned that there are certain characteristics or traits that an effective
business leader must have in order to operate in a global multicultural business environment.
These characteristics help the leader to tackle different cultural and other workplace related
issues. In case of myself, I must possess these characteristics in order to be a successful leader in
a multicultural business environment. After the self-assessment, I have come to know about the
current position in case of an effective business leader. There are certain characteristics that I
have in order to become an effective business leader. I have a global mindset that helps in
creating new solutions while seizing the business opportunities; and I am inspired enough for
making contributing to the global communities. I have a moderate self-awareness because in
know myself and understand my own beliefs that make me understand how it is different from
other’s belief system. I am a confident and self-motivated personal with high energy level; and I
like to take challenges while maintaining my attitudes positive. I also have an effective
communication skill since I can communicate with different people for business and other
purposes in fluent manner while expressing myself in an effective manner. At the same time, I
can motivate people to do the right jobs. These are the characteristics that I possess. However, I
would like to mention the fact that there are certain other characteristic that I do not have which
are critical factors for me to become an effective leader in a multicultural business environment.
These are discussed in the next part.

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Answer to Question 2
There are four characteristics that I have learnt in my previous course workshops that
help in becoming an effective leader in a multicultural business environment. These are
discussed below along with my action path to possess these characteristics.
1. It is needed to stop being ethnocentric in the workplace that is to entirely judge a culture
by the standards and values of my own culture. It is significantly essential to know my
own biases and to know how I see others through the lens of my own culture. In order to
possess this characteristic, I need to look for different perspectives as well as opinions
that can challenge me to reach higher (Popescu, 2013).
2. Effective leaders have the trait to plan ahead of cultural differences instead of minimizing
the cultural differences; and this trait is missing in me. In order to possess this trait, my
action path will be to plan cultural differences ahead while making the employees
recognizing these cultural differences so that they become prepare to adjust with these
cultural difference (Lisak & Erez, 2015).
3. An effective leader has the ability of fostering personal connection as well as
relationships while building trust. In order to become an effective leader in multicultural
environment, I need to possess this characteristic (Stevens et al., 2014). My approach will
be to develop a bridge, not walls. This can be achieved certain questions regarding the
expectations of the individual cultures, type of communication between the employees
and managers, decision making and executing processes in that culture and others.
4. Effective leaders have high CQ (Cultural Intelligence) that helps them in relating to the
work effectively across cultures. Leaders with high CQ can effectively adapt in culturally
diverse business environments (Bird & Stevens, 2013). This is a major characteristic that

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I lack and I need to take effective actions to possess it. The right approach will be to
make increased communication with the employees of different cultures so that I can
know their needs, demand and mindsets.

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References
Bird, A., & Stevens, M. J. (2013). Assessing global leadership competencies. In Global
Leadership 2e (pp. 125-152). Routledge.
Lisak, A., & Erez, M. (2015). Leadership emergence in multicultural teams: The power of global
characteristics. Journal of World Business, 50(1), 3-14.
Popescu, G. H. (2013). Macroeconomics, effective leadership, and the global business
environment. Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice, (2), 170-176.
Stevens, M., Bird, A., Mendenhall, M. E., & Oddou, G. (2014). Measuring global leader
intercultural competency: Development and validation of the Global Competencies
Inventory (GCI). In Advances in global leadership (pp. 115-154). Emerald Group
Publishing Limited.