Benchmark - Culture-Shaping Leadership Many want to be leaders but most do not have the essential tools to become an effective leader within an organization. As the diversity in the United States continues to increase, leaders in organization should be someone that is able to believe in others, understand their cultures and have a vision that many would want to support are a few tools a leader must have. Leadership is a fundamental component within all organizations. Its sole purpose and abilities are becoming more complex with increasing interest and participation in globalization and technology development (Punnett, 2004). One of the most difficult adjustments for a new leader entering a multicultural workplace is being able to understand the key components of the organization. As a new leader, the ability to understand cultures that are within the organization and knowing how to respond to the diversity can be a challenge especially if the leader has not worked with a …show more content…
Per, Chuang (2013), successful global leaders must expand their ability to handle the intricacy of diverse people, comprehend and admire variances, make vital modification in the leadership, and prepare for opportunities and difficulties that follow. Leaders all have different values, beliefs and styles that they bring to an organization. This is what makes leaders all over the world unique because when they work together they each bring different aspects to the table to make a better organization. Culture is reliable, detectible configurations of behavior in organizations (Watkins, 2015). The forces that help to shape the behaviors of cultures within the organization can be observed. Consequently, there are behaviors that are not observed but are present through their values and