There was research done on the differences of different continents, such as North America and Europe, where North America tended to focus on leader-group interaction and the European studies tended to place leadership in a broader, social, legal, and political context. The North American group is more oriented on having a boss and just getting things accomplished, whereas Europe is more focused on people having different ideas putting towards the group.
There are four culture dimensions discussed in this chapter:
- individualism-collectivism
-masculinity-femininity
-uncertainty avoidance
-power distance
There are major distinctions between developed and developing countries where on average the developed world countries have significantly higher per capita income than do the developing countries and that developed world countries rank higher on the Human Development Index (a composite index, which indicates the presence of good education, health care, and quality of life).
Why do you think that countries have different leadership characteristics or ideas on what leadership is?
There are differences because the countries have lived like this their whole lives. They have not changed and think that this is a perfect idea of leadership and goes along with what they have believed in forever. There are differences because there are also different ideas they have in their culture on what is right and wrong. In the developing countries they might have not been taught what is right and wrong for leadership, so they may think that their leadership is right. The US is businesslike because they are more a developed country and know what they are doing, and Europe just agrees with everyone and they are collaborative to each other. This is why the countries are different.
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