Global Leadership Effectiveness: A Multilevel Review and Exploration of the Construct Domain

This chapter focuses on global leadership competencies and orientations with specific reference to theory, practice, and future implications. A critical analysis of existing studies on global leadership competencies and orientations indicated that several global leadership competencies exist such as global business expertise, global organizing expertise, and visioning while global leadership orientation/mindset has been identified as an influencing factor in the learning and application of global leadership competencies by global leaders which often leads to effective global leadership. In determining the role of goal orientation in global leadership competencies, evidence from previous studies revealed that goal orientation inputs such as team learning orientation and team performance orientation contributes positively to collective global leadership effectiveness. Finally, the barriers to global leadership competencies and orientations were identified and solutions were proffered to limit the negative effects on global leadership effectiveness in business environments.

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The Contributions of Context-related Global Characteristics to Global Leadership Effectiveness

Academy of Management Proceedings ◽

10.5465/ambpp.2013.13244symposium ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2013 (1) ◽

pp. 13244

Keyword(s):

Leadership Effectiveness ◽

Global Leadership

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Emotional and cultural intelligence in global leadership effectiveness

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e518422013-046 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

Thomas Rockstuhl ◽

K. Yee Ng ◽

Stefan Seiler ◽

Soon Ang ◽

Hubert Annen

Keyword(s):

Cultural Intelligence ◽

Leadership Effectiveness ◽

Global Leadership

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An investigation of characteristics of effective global leaders

Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing ◽

10.1108/jbim-01-2019-0035 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 35 (10) ◽

pp. 1505-1515 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Marc A. Geil ◽

Jessica Greenwald

Keyword(s):

Leadership Effectiveness ◽

Selection Process ◽

Individual Characteristics ◽

Global Leadership ◽

Leadership Positions ◽

Native Languages ◽

Work Lives ◽

Content Type ◽

Leadership Experience ◽

The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this study is to unite research in cultural intelligence (CQ), core confidence and multitasking to examine how these characteristics interplay in the perceptions of global leadership effectiveness. Design/methodology/approach The sample comprised 149 employees, mostly managers from 21 countries with 18 native languages spoken who had global leadership experience while working fulltime for international organizations. Relationships were examined using the hierarchical linear regression of survey data. Findings Support is found for core confidence moderating the relationship between CQ and other-rated and self-rated perceptions of global leadership effectiveness such that the relationship is stronger when leader core confidence is high. Moreover, support is found for CQ and core confidence having positive relationships with self-rated perceptions of global leadership effectiveness, and the study found a positive relationship between CQ and multitasking. Practical implications The relationships studied provide practitioners with information to supplement the employee selection process for global leaders. The ability to assess current or future employees and hedge organizational risk in assignment to global leadership positions could have a significant impact. Originality/value This study contributes to the literature by investigating individual characteristics contributing to the perceptions of global leadership effectiveness. Because perceptions are often acted on as if reality and globalization in our personal and work lives is expansive, understanding these relationships is important.

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