A Leader’s Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes for Cultivating Intercultural Competence

Author(s): Aliscia Warren

Mentor(s): Afra Ahmed, Psychology

Abstract

The ability to navigate and construct social structures, such as, work, community, and society, can be fulfilled by a leader. Leaders improve functionality and address individual’s values and concerns (Dugan, 2016). The aim of this research is to determine if Ethical Leadership influence corporate social responsibility when developing intercultural competence in the workplace. The leader should consider other people’s values and experiences more often as they facilitate enriching interpersonal conversation (Collard, 2007), which can be described as Ethical Leadership. Ethical Leadership involves uplifting and supporting diverse workers, I believe it is important to learn about the effective ways to communicate; a result of interpersonal communicative efforts to build rapport and develop trusting relationships (Presbitero & Teng-Challeja, 2019). How does ethical leadership interact with the development of intercultural communication? In what ways is Ethical Leadership associated with Corporate Social Responsibility when developing Intercultural Communication in the workplace?

Video Transcript

In many situations, a single person is not acting alone. They are a factor among other moving parts in a complex multi level environment all throughout the world. Often a leader is explicitly or implicitly selected to aid in a group’s achievement and security. The ability to navigate and construct social structure such as work, community and society, can be fulfilled by a leader. My name is Aliscia Warren and this summer I researched a leaders knowledge, skills and attitudes to cultivate intercultural competence in the workplace. We are immersed in a working community with a wide variety of social identities backgrounds, and to interdependent on one another to collectively achieve organizational goals. Ethical Leadership involves uplifting and supporting diverse workers. It is important to learn about the active voice to communicate so that it results in intercultural interpersonal communication efforts that builds great report and develop trusting relationships. This project is also significant because researchers estimated that people spend 1/3 of their life at work. So it’s important this is in a welcoming environment. How does Ethical Leadership interact with the development of intercultural competence and in what ways is Ethical Leadership associated with corporate social responsibilities when developing intercultural competence in a workplace, I decided to to conduct a literature review to examine these three constructs. And when thinking of factors for ethical leadership, there is a lot that may come to mind. The primary behaviors of an ethical leadership style includes conducting interpersonal relationships, evaluating personal actions, communicating effectively and conducting ethical decisions, in contrast to ethical leadership, displaying behaviors of avoidance not initiating relationships, providing no guidance and a lack of support is considered passive leadership. intercultural competence can also be described as the ability to change perspectives, beliefs, behaviors and knowledge to include various cultures similarities and differences. A leadership a leader should know how to adapt to multiple cultures in a world is constantly changing and constantly going and changing. It’s a cultural competence is continuous, and it should continue to develop as the relationship itself develops. Corporate Social Responsibility is the key to influencing employee behaviors. A leaders perception of Corporate Social Responsibility can influence the subordinates trust, increase organizational citizenship behavior, and enhance and identify employees contributions to the organization. A study in China found that ethical leadership has a positive association with corporate social responsibility and the personal social responsibility. Leaders not only serve as a role model in a workplace but have great influence on the organization’s perceived Social Responsibility and Ethics. Examining corporate social responsibility at an organization reinforces the importance of ethical conduct by stating it is it is the responsibility of the organization and all of the individuals. For my research, I will be conducting a research proposal and then to collect data on this topic, it would be through conceptual questionnaires. For example, I would use the intercultural development inventory also known as the IDI to measure the construct of intercultural competence and conclusion. I believe that ethical leadership, corporate social responsibility and intercultural competence is very important when conducting a workplace environment. Leaders hold a significant role in the workplace, as they are the key authority personnel for information interpretation and organization reinforces workplace behavior. This is demonstrated when subordinates look to the leader for appropriate workplace practices to identify organizational goals and values. Thank you all for taking the time to watch my video and please leave any questions that you may have

2 replies on “A Leader’s Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes for Cultivating Intercultural Competence”

Every leader should watch your presentaiton! “Corporate Social Responsibility is the key to influencing employee behaviors. A leaders perception of Corporate Social Responsibility can influence the subordinates trust, increase organizational citizenship behavior, and enhance and identify employees contributions to the organization.” Thank you! Great work.

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