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Art of Leadership Case Study 5

As a new leader, you will face two main challenges. First, organizations expect quick responses to problems but provide no time for learning. Second, organizations prefer leaders with many years of experience and resist change. To smooth the transition, research the culture of Saudi Arabia where the business deal is located. Saudi culture highly discriminates against women and prevents them from leadership roles. Choosing a man for the business mission respects the local culture and leads to deal success, while choosing a woman would be seen as disrespectful and cause failure. By understanding cultural impacts, leaders can make informed choices and send positive messages about diversity, even if the best choice respects the local culture in this situation. Explain cultural obstacles to

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Art of Leadership Case Study 5

As a new leader, you will face two main challenges. First, organizations expect quick responses to problems but provide no time for learning. Second, organizations prefer leaders with many years of experience and resist change. To smooth the transition, research the culture of Saudi Arabia where the business deal is located. Saudi culture highly discriminates against women and prevents them from leadership roles. Choosing a man for the business mission respects the local culture and leads to deal success, while choosing a woman would be seen as disrespectful and cause failure. By understanding cultural impacts, leaders can make informed choices and send positive messages about diversity, even if the best choice respects the local culture in this situation. Explain cultural obstacles to

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Assignment

Subject: Art of Leadership

Q.5 Case study

Question :
1. What are the challenges you are likely to face as
the new leader?

Answer :
Being a new leader is quite difficult because organizations often face tough problems
and challenges that need quick responses. For a new leader, this is challenging since
the atmosphere of crisis provides no time or patience for learning. Secondly, most
organizations are rigid and sticks to the old belief that “old is gold”. They do not allow
room for raw talent, training, making mistakes and experimentation. Most
organizations believe that an effective leader is that who has long years of service.

2. What are some of the actions you would take to


help smooth the transition?

Answer :
Being a new leader is quite difficult because organizations often face tough problems
and challenges that need quick responses. For a new leader, this is challenging since
the atmosphere of crisis provides no time or patience for learning. Secondly, most
organizations are rigid and sticks to the old belief that “old is gold”.They do not allow
room for raw talent, training, making mistakes and experimentation. Most
organizations believe that an effective leader is that who has long years of service.
3. What cultural factors do you need to consider?

Answer :
In choosing the person to represent them, a leader needs to understand the cultural
context of the host country. Discrimination is one of the factors influencing the
leader’s choice of the person to go to Saudi Arabia. In countries like Saudi Arabia,
defined by Edward Hall’s model as high context countries (Hall, 1976), cultural
nuances communicate more and determines the kind of response received and if not
handled well, this can lead to the loss of a business deal. It determines whether a
business deal will succeed or not.

Women in the country are the most discriminated and disadvantaged and this is not
based on their abilities or actions, but based on cultural factors. Women face
obstacles and barriers of becoming leaders and men prevent them from moving to the
highest levels of organizations. In Saudi Arabia, women experience gender
segregation and are barred from participating in public life including work places.
Choosing a woman to go on this mission would seem disrespectful for the culture
adopted by the Saudi Arabian government and automatically lead to the failure of
this enterprise. Thus, leaders are to know the culture of the people in question to
enable them to make the necessary decision

4.What are the implications of your decision for


your business and the message you send as a
leader?

Answer :

Understanding the impact of culture is important to a leader since leadership is a


social and an interpersonal process. The leader needs to research and understand the
different cultures so that he can make more informed decisions. As a leader, choosing
this man to represent his company would be the most favorable thing to do as it will
enable him to attain his set goals and succeed in closing profitable deals. Since the
man in question does not have experience, this can offer a perfect opportunity for
him to develop his skills and experience hence benefiting the organization.

For the woman who is more experienced and more qualified, the leader can explain
to her the cultural obstacles involved hence not hurting her feelings. The leader can
send her to go on missions in other countries that are low-contexts and that
encourages women taking leadership roles. Training and education can help people
be aware of their biases, understand their own and others’ cultural point of view and
accept their differences. By having diverse people in leadership positions, an
organization “walks and walk” and can prove its commitment to diversity.

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