Course Description
This course is designed to examine the role of culture and cultural dynamics in the selection/emergence and functioning of leadership. The course will demonstrate the importance of understanding culture, leadership, and the interaction between them in different context. The underlying theme of this course is that the skills and behaviors that are perceived as effective leadership characteristics in one culture are not necessarily those that will be effective in a different culture. By exploring the ways in which specific characteristics are valued differently by different cultures, the students acquire frameworks for assessing how to approach a work assignment in a culture that is not their own. The goal of the course is to help prepare students for business assignments outside of their home countries.