Often referred to "China's first teacher," Confucius set the standards and values that still permeate Chinese culture. Although officially disregarded by the Chinese government since the communist revolution, Confucius and his teachings remained the foundation of Chinese culture and managerial...

Professor Gary Becker, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business (“GSB”) and winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics stated in GSB Magazine, February 2008, “Businesses now appreciate the fact that, by far, their most important assets are their employees, and how they invest in...

This study adopted a contextual framework to examine whether an interaction between group culture and economic power influences self-interest in a simulated commons dilemma. Full-time managers enrolled in executive MBA programs in Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, and the United States (U.S.) made...

Professor Joe Raelin, the Donald Gordon Visiting Professor of Leadership at the University of Cape Town, provided the keynote address at SIETAR Japan’s 36th Annual Conference, “Leadership and Collaboration in Intercultural Contexts.” In this review article, Prof. Raelin provides an...

Background: Multicultural teams provide diverse skill sets, and members’ different experiences could through effective leadership be leveraged to improve organizational performance, especially in the agile organization. Effective multicultural team leadership can drive the goals of agile...

Background: Most organizations in high-receiving immigrant nations lack insight into how a bicultural employee’s special skills might be leveraged to improve performance within agile organizations. Biculturals are recognized as an important segment of managers, organizational leaders have a...

This paper introduces the special issue on Asian management style. This issue has gotten much attention, but nevertheless is not very well defined. There is substantial debate about whether characteristics of management style are inherent in Asian cultures, or are adaptations to conditions in...

Developing charismatic leaders in the 21st century must include fostering the cultural awareness skills for effectively managing employees from many new and unique backgrounds. The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if there was a correlation between cultural intelligence (CI)...

One of the challenges for international companies is to manage multicultural environments effectively. Cultural intelligence (CQ) is a soft skill required of the leaders of organizations working in cross-cultural contexts to be able to communicate effectively in such environments. On the other...