A Cross-National Comparison of Effective Leadership and Teamwork: Toward a Global Workforce

by Jean Brittain Leslie

In the new global environment for organizations, it is often assumed that business leaders from across the world will have dramatically different views of effective leadership. Surprisingly, there is a striking consensus on this issue among managers from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This report presents a study that compared the responses of leaders from six European Union countries and the United States about their perceptions of work-related values of effective leaders and team members. The results yield a profile of effective leadership for those working in cross-national teams in the European Union and provide a framework for thinking about how to develop effective cross-national alliances anywhere.

53 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1997