Wrocław, Poland

Leadership in multicultural environment
(field of studies: Management)

Master's
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⇑Leadership in multicultural environment at IDEIS Wrocław

Field of studies: Management
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: economy and administration
Kind of studies: part-time studies
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University website: www.ideis.pl/english

⇑Test: Is Leadership in multicultural environment the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. During an internship or your first job, you join a team where some people raise problems openly while others avoid criticism in front of the group. How do you read this?

2. You’re running a project with people in different time zones. How do you organise the work?

3. At Master’s level you’ll read, write and debate in English, in an international group with people from many countries. How do you feel about that?

4. A team member from another country rarely speaks up in meetings, although you know they’re highly capable. What do you do?

5. How do you see the role of a leader?

6. A conflict breaks out because two people have completely different ideas of what ‘urgent’ means. How do you respond?

7. What do you think of theories on cultural differences, such as the cultural dimensions described in management literature?

8. You have to pass on an unpopular decision from senior management to your team. How do you handle it?

9. How do you develop your leadership skills?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Leadership in multicultural environment?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Leadership
Leadership is both a research area and a practical skill encompassing the ability of an individual or organization to "lead" or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations. Specialist literature debates various viewpoints, contrasting Eastern and Western approaches to leadership, and also (within the West) United States versus European approaches. U.S. academic environments define leadership as "a process of social influence in which a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task". Leadership seen from a European and non-academic perspective encompasses a view of a leader who can be moved not only by communitarian goals but also by the search for personal power.
Leadership
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith in The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Ch. 12
Leadership
Character is what you are. Reputation is what others think you are. The reason that some fail to climb the ladder of success, or of leadership if you want to call it that, is that there is a difference between reputation and character. The two do not always coincide. A man may be considered to have sterling character. Opportunity might come to that man; but if he has the reputation for something he is not, he may fail that opportunity. I think character is the foundation of successful leadership.
Lucian Truscott, as quoted in Air Force Journal of Logistics, March 22, 2005, Notable quotes
Leadership
If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it. The U.S. Army still has to learn that. The British understand it. Patton understood it. I always admired Patton. Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes.
Bill Mauldin in The Brass Ring (1971)

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