The major impact of diverse cultures on leadership is easily seen through the GLOBE findings of universally and non-universally desirable and undesirable attributes (House, Hanges, Javidan, Dorfman, Gupta, 2004, pp. 39-40). These results show that many cultures can appreciate the same leadership attributes such as inspiring and a visionary (House et al., 2004, p. xvii). While at the same time, cultures could vastly disagree about attributes such as ambitious where one culture highly values it and another devalues it (House et al., 2004, p. xvii). As a result leadership is seen to be culturally contingent by the variance of these attributes as a result of different cultures and how each one individually perceives leadership (House et al., 2004, p. 727).
Culture is clearly shown to influence leadership in many other different facets through the findings of the GLOBE study. House et al. concluded that cultural forces greatly influence many different parts of the leadership phenomena like those of requisites for leadership positions such as privileges, power, and influence that is granted to leaders (House et al., 2004, p. 66). Cultural …show more content…
12-13). Winston explains that the moral expectations and character of biblical leaders resulted in strong relationships and respect between themselves and others, which helped produce success (2010, p. 9). Global leaders today need to have a strong character that strives to do the right thing so that they may not only achieve the best results but also to glorify God. Dr. Crowther supported this when listing global leadership competencies, one of which was a “persistence in doing what is right” (2016) Global leaders need strong character in order to be competent in their