Question

Why is it important for a leader who wants to be more of a "global leader" to understand how his/her home culture may differ from other cultures?

Answer 1

Answer:

This is important for a leader who wants to be more of a "global leader" to understand how his/her home culture may differ from other cultures because of the following reasons as below

• A global leader is a leader who is going to lead the employee/people from different nation in the globe. So during this leadership, he needs to know what is his culture and how his culture is different than the culture of employee of different nations, so that he can ensure that he develops the sense and understanding for the other applicable cultures, so that he have adequate interaction and leadership with those employees of other nations.
• Culture is the key element of leadership and a leader must know the culture of the employees so that leader can influence the employee with meeting the cultural value and beliefs. If the leader is unaware of the culture of global employees, then he could not become global leader, as he will not be able to influence the global employees and will be ineffective in global cultural aspects and values.
• Leadership’s main purpose is the employee motivation and getting best out of the employees, but if global leader do not know, the culture of global employees, he will not be able to motivate employees, and employees will not be able to deliver their best for the business.
• So it is significant and important for the global leader to understand the cultural of all the nation whose employee are going to be under his leadership so that he can explore the leadership principle adequately and make motivation and influences for the global employees with meeting their cultural value and beliefs. Without knowing culture one cannot understand employee and could not influence or motivate them and will result in ineffective leader in the business.