Culture Matters

Chapter 14

What Global Leaders Should Know about Managing “Working Together at a Distance”

Introduction

Over the past few decades, management theory has encouraged organizations to stride ahead, confident in the belief that leaders can be developed and shaped into a winning character, defying the widespread maxim that “Leaders are born, not made!” However, with the 21st century’s impetus of globalization, organizations have transformed the workplace into a boundaryless, innovative, and multicultural structure. This new phenomenon has forced organizations to create strategies that demand global leaders who are competent in managing virtual teams that thrive on diversity in many forms. Appropriate cross-cultural training needs to be developed and ...