CROSS CULTURAL MANAGEMENT

BMG 20403
A BRITISH FIRMS WANTS TO START BUSINESS IN MALAYSIA .
WHAT TYPE OF LEADERSHIP STYLE DO THEY APPLY ? IS THE
BRITISH TYPE OF LEADERSHIP STYLE IS SAME AS IN MALAYSIA

NURUL HIDAYAH BINTI ABDUL RASHID

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INTRODUCTION

Fantastic leaders become a great balance among trends, abilties,

behaviors, sources of electricity, and aspects of the situation.
One-of-a-kind individuals who can efficaciously influence what the
institution does
Powerful management starts with the essential capability to agree
with in themselves.
Leadership is a procedure by way of which someone influences others
to perform an objective and directs the organization in a way that
makes it extra cohesive and coherent
IMPORTANCE

Understanding the effects of leadership on performance

Management education of managers at all stages ought to turn
out to be an critical aspect of organizational schooling
Effective leadership is visible as a robust supply of control
improvement and sustained competitive gain for organizational
performance improvement
OBJECTIVES

To discover the leadership styles in British and Malaysia

To identify the similarities and differences of leadership styles
between those countries
To recognize the problem of leadership styles chosen .
REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Authors Definition
Leadership is the capacity to boom a collection closer to
Chaudhry, A. Q., & Javed, H. (2012)
the get the vision or set of desires.

Most effective evokes subordinates capacity to decorate

Lee And Chuang (2009) performance however also meets their requirements
inside the system of achieving organizational desires.

The person behaviour to manual a group to obtain the

Stogdill (1957),
commonplace target.
Leading method to provide inspiring motive and to
Fry (2003), beautify the workforces capability for increase and
development.
Effective leadership behaviours can facilitate the
Mcgrath And Macmillan, 2000; Teece, Pisano And Shuen,
improvement of performance when groups face those
1997
new demanding situations
BRITISH LEADERSHIP STYLE

British is practicing casual leadership = laissez faire leadership

Laissez-faire leadership, also known as delegative leadership, is a
form of management style in which leaders are arms-off and allow
institution participants to make the choices.
Robbins (2007) defined the laissez-fair style as Abdicates duties
avoid making choices .
MALAYSIA LEADERSHIP STYLE

According to Thambi, Kasturi ( n,d ) , leadership style that applied in

Malaysia is transformational leadership
Transformational Leadership focused on building a shared goal,
improve communication and take a decision collaboratively
Transformational leadership usually called as a charismatic
management. it is the most studied guide of leadership (Bass 1985,
1990; Bass & Avolio 1993, 1994; Gastil 1994; Lowe et al.1996; Pawar
& Eastman 1997; Shamir et al. 1998; Yammorino et al.1997; Yukl
1994)
COMPARISON OF BOTH
LEADERSHIP STYLE
Laissez faire Transformational leadership
Leadership is passive Leadership is proactive
Plans and establishes objectives only if required to
Work to change the organizational culture by
do so.
implementing new ideas

Transformational leaders motivate and empower

They dont motivates their employee
They dont developing their subordinates
Lives with whatever structure he is given.
employees to achieve companys objectives by
appealing to higher ideals and moral values
Motivates followers by encouraging them to
transcend their own interests for those of the group
or unit
Changes the organizational culture

PROBLEMS OF BOTH COUNTRIES

Trouble with Followers

Communication problem
FINDINGS

As compared with both countries, Malaysia has implemented

transformational leadership where they give full support for their
subordinates
Meanwhile laissez faire leadership is almost opposite with
transformational leadership. Laissez faire leadership is a leadership
that have no knowledge of what they possess
CONCLUSION

The effects of this study discovered that both international locations is

practised special leadership , transformational and laissez faire leadership
leadership fashion has each effective and bad impact on performance.
The take a look at located that transformational and laissez faire
management fashion, wherein personnel are allowed to have experience
of belonging, carry out higher duty with little supervision, and followers
are helped to reap their visions and have tremendous impacts to the
consequences .
Thus , British leadership style have no similarities with Malaysia leadership
style .