Question

When we consider culture, we consider it an absolute value that does not change as easily. Given its rigid nature and the aspect of understanding of its members, we can say that to influence the necessary behavior in the culture, we first need to become a part of it. Leadership is, therefore, an aspect of influencing individuals through situational considerations, a leader cannot choose to act in a single manner, using a single leadership style and framework and make use of their powers in the same way due to the fact that every culture has its own nuances, variables, and level of undescended and adherence of its members. We can say that a leader can only truly achieve their function by becoming a part of the culture, forming better relationship dynamics with the individuals and better overall rapport to make key decisions involving the culture, since the decisions cannot be made in isolation of the cultural beliefs and factors that influence it, we can say that a leader needs to adjust to the culture and not make the culture adjust to their leadership style for maximum momentum.

Answer 1

Across countries, behavior and roles are distributed based on the gender. In case of feminine cultures like Sweden, people give more significance to relationships and quality of life. They work to live as a result job plays a small part in their life. This is reflected in the openness, nurturing and egalitarian nature of the people. This freedom and support allows the employees to take up challenging jobs which acts as a motivation. The people tend to stress on equality, team work and work-life balance. Managers are viewed as employees as others. Female managers tend to be soft and apply their intuition. There are emotion and easy to compromise. This is linked to the simple relationship between the managers and subordinates. The job is more of relationship oriented rather than task oriented. The management consists of equal number of male and female members with minimal wage gap between genders. Further, less working hours is preferred which is leads to lower job stress and burnout. However, according to Hofstede, the low masculinity or high feminity is suitable for small organization i.e., “small us beautiful”.