Shaping the Global Leader
Fundamentals in Culture and Behavior for Optimal Organizational Performance

Considering behavioral norms in their cultural contexts, this book arrives at a fully operational international leadership theory ? and makes it accessible to academic and professional readers alike.

Shaping the Global Leader fundamentally covers eight cultural dimensions gleaned from acclaimed international leadership scholars such as Geert Hofstede and the GLOBE study authors. Each cultural dimension is followed by interviews of renowned organizational leaders who relate their experiences in that area and each section underscores strategies for moving forward. The authors highlight critical lessons from classic behavioral psychology experiments and apply these findings to the international organizational context.

This book serves as an eminently readable and enlightening handbook for those working, leading or studying interculturally. Both students and professionals in international leadership or business will be provided with clear and actionable organizational insights for an increasingly complex global landscape.

Introduction

Chapter One: The What, How and Why of Culture

Chapter Two: Individualism -----------------------– Collectivism

Chapter Three: A Glass of Beer, A Shot of Sake, and Groupthink

Chapter Four: Group Work and the Free-Rider Effect

Chapter Five: Achievement --------------- Ascription

Chapter Six: Power Distance: Hierarchical versus Egalitarian

Chapter Seven: Avoiding the Elixir of Power

Chapter Eight: Uncertainty Avoidance

Chapter Nine: The Loss Aversion Bias

Chapter Ten: Assertiveness

Chapter Eleven: Pan-Cultural Motivation

Chapter Twelve: Attitudes in Time

Chapter Thirteen: Communication is More - Much More - Than Language

Chapter Fourteen: Ethnocentrism…

Conclusion

Appendix

Index

Henry P. Biggs, PhD, JD, MBA, serves currently as CEO of Course Scheduling and Eusabian Technologies – software development companies with business in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Formerly the Chair of the Foreign Language Department at Houghton College, Biggs served as the Assistant then Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, where he taught International Leadership with co-author Lenny Ramsey. He is a dual citizen of the United States and Italy, and currently resides in Paris, France.

Tom Bussen, JD, MBA, formerly served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Asia and as an Assistant Professor of Business at the American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Bussen taught courses there in Leadership, International Business, and Ethics. More recently, Bussen served as Visiting Researcher at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and is now a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior Management at the University of Florida.

Lenny Ramsey, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy at Carroll University. She earned her PhD in Neuroscience through the McDonnell International Scholars Academy at Washington University in St Louis, where she taught International Leadership. She is a citizen of the Netherlands.