Managing in International Contexts: Global Leadership Report

This report examines global leadership from multiple perspectives, including universal, contingency, and normative approaches. It explores how these perspectives influence management, leadership, and careers in international contexts. The report discusses the importance of understanding global business environments and the impact of cultural differences on leadership styles. It also presents a case study of how situational, transformational, and autocratic leadership styles can be implemented in an organization to manage various situations. The report emphasizes the need for leaders to adapt their approaches to suit the specific demands of the global business environment. It provides insights into the skills, attitudes, and mindsets required for effective leadership in international contexts, including an analysis of the UTS Business: Managing in International Contexts course.

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Perspectives on global leadership
Leadership can be viewed from multiple perspectives when placed in a global context.
Amongst a good number of approaches three major approaches used for analysing global
leadership, namely the universal approach, contingency approach and Normative approach
associated with global leadership have been discussed bellow. According to the universal
approach of leadership, efficient global leader possess similar traits, skills as well as behaviour
irrespective of their workplace (Bird and Mendenhall 2016). However according to the
contingency approach of leadership, leader should not demonstrate similar leadership tactics and
skills in different scenarios since what works for one situation may not work for the other. The
situational theory of leadership emphasis the fact that leaders needs to adjust their style on the
basis of the nature of their task as well as the needs of their followers (Rosenbach 2018). When it
comes to the Normative approach of leadership, this perspective suggest that leaders providing
leadership in the global contexts requires to learn specific set of skill that differ from traditional
leadership. According to the theory, the fluidity, complexity as well as ambiguity of the
international business impose specific pressure on leaders and for overcoming the same unique
skills, attitude, mindset and knowledge is needed. In the organization, I have worked in, the
manager of the organization used to follow situational leadership. I had evidenced how different
situations can be tackled by implementing different types of techniques. For instance for
minimizing conflict within the organization he used to implement transformational leadership.
However, during emergency situation, he used to practice autocratic leadership.

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Reference List
Bird, A. and Mendenhall, M.E., 2016. From cross-cultural management to global leadership:
Evolution and adaptation. Journal of World Business, 51(1), pp.115-126.
Rosenbach, W.E., 2018. Contemporary issues in leadership. Routledge.