Leadership
INTRODUCTION
The main purpose of this study is to identify the International Leaders and define the main attribute that they should possess. In order to classify International Leaders’ personality two different style have been examined: Western style of leadership and Eastern style of leadership.
The first part of this report looks at the factors which cause the needs of International Leaders: the first factors are globalisation and immigration, the second factor is cultural differences, which affect people perception of leadership. The second part examine two different styles: East leadership style which is represented by China, South Korea and Japan, Western leadership style which will be illustrates by the United Kingdom and The United States of America. The third, last part summarise skills which leaders should have in order to perform well globally and be able to manage international teams, organisations.
FORCES CAUSING DEVELOPING INTERNATIONAL LEADERS.
In recent decades most of the large companies moving from domestic market to international market. As the ...........58% of companies in the UK expand abroad. For example, Marriott International Inc. operates in almost 70 different countries with approximately 35% of new room growth coming from outside the US (Mariot International Inc. 2006). Similarly, Starbucks operates in 34 international markets (Starbauck, 2004) and McDonalds currently operates in more that 100 different countries (McDonald2003). On the other hand, migration and immigration recently is becoming more popular than ever , especially within young generation wanting to expand their knowledge and cultural differences. People also move because of economic, political and religion issues. For example the number of foreign-born US has steadily increased from 7.9% in 1990 to 12% in 2003 (Migration Information Source 2004). Approximately 53% of this population was born in Latin America, 25% in Asia, 14% in Europe and 8% in other
The main purpose of this study is to identify the International Leaders and define the main attribute that they should possess. In order to classify International Leaders’ personality two different style have been examined: Western style of leadership and Eastern style of leadership.
The first part of this report looks at the factors which cause the needs of International Leaders: the first factors are globalisation and immigration, the second factor is cultural differences, which affect people perception of leadership. The second part examine two different styles: East leadership style which is represented by China, South Korea and Japan, Western leadership style which will be illustrates by the United Kingdom and The United States of America. The third, last part summarise skills which leaders should have in order to perform well globally and be able to manage international teams, organisations.
FORCES CAUSING DEVELOPING INTERNATIONAL LEADERS.
In recent decades most of the large companies moving from domestic market to international market. As the ...........58% of companies in the UK expand abroad. For example, Marriott International Inc. operates in almost 70 different countries with approximately 35% of new room growth coming from outside the US (Mariot International Inc. 2006). Similarly, Starbucks operates in 34 international markets (Starbauck, 2004) and McDonalds currently operates in more that 100 different countries (McDonald2003). On the other hand, migration and immigration recently is becoming more popular than ever , especially within young generation wanting to expand their knowledge and cultural differences. People also move because of economic, political and religion issues. For example the number of foreign-born US has steadily increased from 7.9% in 1990 to 12% in 2003 (Migration Information Source 2004). Approximately 53% of this population was born in Latin America, 25% in Asia, 14% in Europe and 8% in other