Global Leadership Case Study

Preparing for Global Leadership When a consultant is hired by a leader in a United States corporation to address the foundational leadership concerns surrounding the development of a group of diverse global group of employees, the consultant will most likely have to go beyond his/her own experiences and training gained from knowledge by working with familiar formal company rules and procedures (House, R. J., Hanges, P. J., Javidan, M., Dorfman, P. W. Gupta, V. (Eds.), 2004). The consultant or leader will find that his/her attributes, behavior, status and influence will vary according to culture forces in countries or regions. Societal culture influences perceptions and values of societal members because leaders are members, they are affected

. . help organizations identify their current and preferred culture” (Suderman, J., 2012, para. 1). The OCAI was used in a case study of a new organizational leader at the start of his new job until the end of his first year. The assessment was conducted by use of a simple survey in which participants expressed their perceptions of the current culture and what they wanted for their future culture. This was useful to the novice leader and the organization because the results would identify gaps between the current status and the desired future cultural state and “provides the new leader with a tool for leadership development” (Suderman, J., 2012, para.

They hold an unjust world belief and stress equality, solidarity, quality of life and emphasize tradition, seniority and experience, integrity, and loyalty. While Greeks rank mediocre in assertiveness, they rank low in future orientation, gender equalitarism, human orientation, individualism and collectivism, performance orientation, and uncertainty orientation. Their only high score was in power distance. Leadership preferred: Charismatic-Value Based (House et al., 2004).

Summary: Iran Iran, theocratic, (CIA, n. d.), is grouped in the Southern Asia region with the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, and Thailand. Iran’s climate is desert where precipitation is scarce and unpredictable (House et al., 2004). Iran’s culture is class based and Muslim and believe that “Islam is a body of values, ideas, and beliefs that should encompass all spheres of life including personal and social relationships, economics, and politics” (Price, M., 2001).