Applied Research Methods for Business and Management
APPLIED RESEARCH METHODS FOR BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
Individual Assignment
On
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP SKILLS IN MULTINATIONAL ORGANSIATION
STUDENT NUMBER:
Date of Submission: May 21st 2010
CONTENTS PAGE
Introduction 2
Research problem 3
Aim and objective of research 3
Literature Review 4
Research Methodology 6
Research design 6 Data collection method 7
Sampling 9
Data analysis 9
Validity and limitation 10
Ethical issues and limitations 10
Time 11
References 12
Appendix 15
INTRODUCTION:
In order to expand the business around the world more and more industries are investing overseas. In an expanding global and diverse economy mix of races and culture exists. Therefore, increases the number of multinational organisations. Multinational organisation is also called Multinational Corporation. Porter (1990) defines MNC as ‘A multinational corporation (MNC) is usually defined as a company with operations in more than one country’. This requires a specific type of culture (organisational) which can be dependent on leadership. As Smith et al (1997) suggested that multinational organisations often attempt to either standardize their operations internationally or adapt to the local environment. In this sense, organisations must have specific leadership/management styles in their own operations. As mentioned above leadership has been a major topic of research in psychology for almost a century which may be defined “the process in which one person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization to accomplish a common task, Multicultural Leadership (Anon, 2009).” Organisational leadership involves processes and proximal outcomes that contribute to the development and
Individual Assignment
On
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP SKILLS IN MULTINATIONAL ORGANSIATION
STUDENT NUMBER:
Date of Submission: May 21st 2010
CONTENTS PAGE
Introduction 2
Research problem 3
Aim and objective of research 3
Literature Review 4
Research Methodology 6
Research design 6 Data collection method 7
Sampling 9
Data analysis 9
Validity and limitation 10
Ethical issues and limitations 10
Time 11
References 12
Appendix 15
INTRODUCTION:
In order to expand the business around the world more and more industries are investing overseas. In an expanding global and diverse economy mix of races and culture exists. Therefore, increases the number of multinational organisations. Multinational organisation is also called Multinational Corporation. Porter (1990) defines MNC as ‘A multinational corporation (MNC) is usually defined as a company with operations in more than one country’. This requires a specific type of culture (organisational) which can be dependent on leadership. As Smith et al (1997) suggested that multinational organisations often attempt to either standardize their operations internationally or adapt to the local environment. In this sense, organisations must have specific leadership/management styles in their own operations. As mentioned above leadership has been a major topic of research in psychology for almost a century which may be defined “the process in which one person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization to accomplish a common task, Multicultural Leadership (Anon, 2009).” Organisational leadership involves processes and proximal outcomes that contribute to the development and