Leadership and Intercultural Dynamics (PB)
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491_9781607520061
argue that the context for leadership within many nation states and international scenarios involvesinteraction between multiple and diverse social cultures. A further proposition is that the dominantleadership theory and discourse in the past reflects forms of western hegemony and mono-culturalassumptions drawn largely from the Anglo-American worldview. It will argue that such frameworks havelimited validity in multicultural societies such as Australia, Britain, Canada, Europe and the USA and withindigenous communities within such nations. These societies contain significant populations which do notshare the core values which inform established leadership practice and institutional paradigms in suchnations. The consequence can often be insensitivity towards non-mainstream cultures, inappropriatestructures, failed interventions and alienation of individuals from major institutions and traditions.Another proposition is that as more developing nations increase in affluence and view education as a keyeconomic strategy, they become increasingly exposed to western discourses about leadership andmanagement. Whilst acknowledging that western traditions have much to offer, there is a danger that thiscan involve forms of cultural imperialism whereby local traditions are ignored or subjugated. There is a need for developing nations to recognise andvalue the traditions and practices from their own cultures and assess the extent to which they are compatible with borrowings from other nations. Suchprocesses require a sophisticated degree of reflective analysis to determine potential compatibilities and conflicts. This is an alternative to unmediatedcultural borrowing, cloning, and hybridization. Western leadership scholars who work in such contexts have some responsibility to address thisinteraction instead of blithely offering practices and recipes from their metropolitan world views.The final proposition is that there is a need to develop models and practices
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