BUS 5010: Culture in a Global Business Environment

Module 3 Worksheet: Milestone 1 – Evaluating Leadership Styles and their Impact

Milestone 1 – Evaluating Leadership Styles and their Impact

Part I Directions: For Milestone 1, you will evaluate leadership styles across cultures to determine best practices while operating
internationally. The following article, Jobs or Gates: Differences in Leadership, is about the different leadership styles of two of
the greatest global leaders in history, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Use the information in the article to complete this worksheet.

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Leadership Styles Unique Leadership Styles Unique Leadership Styles Shared in Common by
to Steve Jobs to Bill Gates Steve Jobs and Bill Gates

1. AUTOCRATIC LEADERSHIP STYLE 1. TRANSFORMATIONAL 1. The two global business leaders

– Steve Jobs leadership styles is
autocratic in nature. This style
gives little or no room to decision
making to other member of the
organizations except the business
owner himself. Part of the major
characteristics of an autocratic
business leader is the inability to
delegate responsibility to
subordinate. He uses his
individual creative mind to
“combine one idea with another to
spawn a novel creation”
2. TEAMWORK – Steve Jobs did not
LEADERSHIP STYLE – According
to (1) transformational leader is
“someone who raised the
awareness about issue of
consequence, shifted them to
higher level needs, influenced
them to transcend their own self
interest for the good of the group
or organization”. This is an
attribute associated with Bill Gate.
As a global business leader Bill
believes in participative
leadership style where employees
contribute ideas towards the
growth and success of the
business. In other words,
shared few things in common,
among them is the fact that they
are both risk taker.
2. Jobs and Gates offers some of
the most successful product ever
in the world.
3. They both have the passion and
dedication for innovation in the
world of computer technology
4. They both have the ability to
recognize ideas and the process
to execute such ideas into reality,
thus, achieving more productivity
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enjoy the benefit of teamwork
because he is at the center of
decision making thus creating no
room for employee ideas.
3. FAST DECISION MAKING –
because he is solely responsible
for most business decisions.
Implementation of business
decision will not have to pass
through rigorous process of
approvals to make decisions.
4. LEADING BY EXAMPLE – Jobs
was a role model to his workforce
through demonstration and
emulation. In other words, his
workforce was able to emulate his
core principle of paying attention
to details, assimilating the
business mission statement to
heart and ensuring they work hard
to fulfill the company’s goals.
5. KEEP CREATIVE AWAY FROM
CRITIC – He believes creation
requires ideation, explication and
critical analysis, though the three
steps should be performed
separately by different staffs. In
other words, among the
motivating employees to be true and success in business.
advocate of the company.
5.
2. ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP – Bill
gate acknowledge the principle of (add as many styles as needed)
adaptative leadership which
according to Ronald, Marty et al is
the act of mobilizing a group of
individual to handle tough
challenges and emerge
triumphant in the end. Adaptive
leadership is built on four
fundamental principles that is,
emotional intelligence, fostering a
culture of honesty, enhancing
development of new ideas and
promoting transparency and
creativity in the workplace.
3. TEAMWORK– Due do the freedom
possessed by employees here.
There is room for teamwork and a
major source of motivation that
will help the business to grow
with more ideas
4. Gate model utilizes the skills of
his workforce to the fullest
capacity.
5.
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workforce, Jobs see reason to

separate the creative from the (add as many styles as needed)
critics, even though both are
important to the business they
can’t work together to bring
positive ideas.

6. Jobs business principles also

believes its important for the
business to generate as many
ideas as possible because the
more ideas at the company
disposition the better they are
able to handpick the best among
them.

(add as many styles as needed)

Part II Directions: Identify a business leader from a different country and compare that person's leadership style with the styles of
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

Leadership Styles Unique Your Selected Leadership Styles Shared in Common Leadership Styles Shared in Common
Leader: with Bill Gates with Steve Jobs
NAME of LEADER: ALIKO DANGOTE
LOCATION: NIGERIA

1. Aliko Dangote, the president of
Dangote group is a Nigerian born
global business leader. He has
been able to maneuver different
political, Religious and cultural
institutions in Nigeria and other
1. Like Bill Gate, Aliko Dangote also
adopts transformational
leadership style in doing
business.
2. There is encouragement of
1. He is ready to take costly risk in
other to achieve business goals.
Irrespective of unstable
government policy Dangote has in
many occasions persevere to
establishment of new businesses
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countries where the company is teamwork to achievement in part of Nigeria.

currently doing business. “The
Dangote group has 13
subsidiaries spread all over
Nigeria to include salt, flour, pasta,
noodles, logistics, real estates,
telecommunications, steel, oil and
gas, among others and operates
in 14 Africa countries”.
2. Dangote combines
transformational leadership style
with charismatic leadership style
that emphasizes confidence,
extroversion and values as the
best principles for motivating
followers.
business growth and
development
3. Aliko Dangote Also shared
adaptive theory with Bill Gate.
4. Dangote has also took calculated
risk at different point in doing
business despite uncertain
political atmosphere
5. Other notable qualities shared in
common includes delegation
skills, confidence, integrity and
humility.
2. He also led by examples within
and outside his organization. A
characteristic that brings out the
charisma in his person.
3. He encourages teamwork among
workforce, both in driving growth
and innovation of new ideas.
4. Focused on improvement,
confidence, courage, awareness.
5.
(add as many styles as needed)

3. The business also adopts the (add as many styles as needed)

principle of long-term strategic
perspective rather than short time
in driving business growth and
penetration. It’s a known fact that
Dangote started as distributor of
consumers product at inception
before diversification into
production of both consumer
products and capital-intensive
products like Cement and oil and
gas.
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4. The company has consistently

drive expansion across Africa
through innovations and
increasing autonomy of
multinational companies.

5.

(add as many styles as needed)

Part III Directions: Provide a 250-word response for the following prompts.

Should global leaders change
their leadership style when
entering a new country or
culture for business
expansion? Why?
Based on our learning thus far, we have been able to understand leadership concept, styles and
various types of leadership. On the other hand, an evaluation of three prominent global business
leaders has proven that different leadership style is peculiar to different leader across cultures.
However, the basic principles that are common across all styles of leadership have a major role
to play.
(Sunnie, G 2016) was able to explain what makes an effective leader in the right perspective
based on study of many global leaders across the world.
By demonstrating strong ethics and providing a sense of safety – A safe and trust environment
engenders fairness irrespective of country and the culture a business is operating. Employees
tend to have a sense of belonging, ability to be innovative and drive optimal productivity in an
ethical atmosphere.
There need to also empower workforce so they can have their own time to self-organize. The
distribution of power and delegation of duty in a workplace remain the best approach towards
achieving productivity.
Leaders need to foster a sense of connection and belonging. Open communication is a tool
towards building a strong foundation for connection among employees.
The need to promote sincerity to new ideas and drive organizational learning among both leaders
and employees. Leaders also need to show commitment to growth to motivate employees.
Beyond above discussions, it’s also imperative to note that a leader must possess some
additional quality before setting up a successful business outside their own culture. They need an

Module 3 Worksheet: Milestone 1 – Evaluating Leadership Styles and their Impact
How does changing
leadership styles (or not
changing) solve the market
entry issues faced by a global
businesses when expanding
to different cultures or
markets?
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oversea experience, they need to understand their belief and what makes them different from
others, there is for a good knowledge of cultural diversity, the leader needs to thread with humility
and respect. Other qualities include the effective communication and interpersonal skills,
adaptability, curiosity good oriented and enthusiasm.
Furthermore, there is also needed to understand the distance among countries, cultural
differences, technology, complexity of trade and lastly time zone.
In conclusion, more emphasis needs to be placed on the above factors than changing leadership
style.
The issue of styles is not a major phenomenon when seeking to expand business beyond one’s
immediate market or culture. It’s important for business owners to look beyond the normal and
drive deeper towards understanding the more fundamental factors.
When planning doing business in a global environment the need to monitor time orientation
becomes very important because some cultures values time management while others don’t.
research have shown that USA adhere to time management than Asia and African countries. In
other words, setting appointment for 9:00am is constant while some other cultures still give
leverage for adjustment.
Some cultures value individualism unlike some that placed more emphasis on collectivism. For
instance, countries like China place emphasis more on collectivism while some countries with
transformational and adaptative principles place more focus on individualism. Those on
individualism spectrum tend to believe more on individual achievement on achievement business
objectives.
Some cultures often take risk while others avoid risk scenario. Country like USA tend to take
more risk than part of Asia where they avoid risk factors.
Some cultures appreciate collective result while country like United states promote competitive
culture. Cooperative cultures see team as a family, as such business owner is regarded as the
head of family to give directions to the work force towards actualizing business objectives.
Some people work in low context society while others work in high context culture. Those in low
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context cultures accept direct communication unlike those in high context culture whose see such
as insult.
Based on my current knowledge, emphasis should be placed more on this factor in solving
market entry issue instead of focusing on leadership style when planning to penetrate a new
market.

Provide 3 sources that you References

consulted to create your
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Clawson, J.B, (2019) ; 11 Key characteristics of a global business leader. Culled from
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Gborogosi, L. ; Learning from Dangote’s diversification and globalization policy. Culled from
https://www.gabrieldomale.com/blog/learning-from-dangote-s-diversification-globalization-
strategy

Jase, R.R, Raina, M.R, Melanie, P.L et al, (2017) ; Developing global transformational leader.
Journal of World Business, Vol52, issue 4 (2010), pg 461-473.

Olukoya, S. (2018); Dangote six business strategies for every aspiring entrepreneur. Culled from
https://investorsking.com/2018/11/03/dangotes-six-business-strategies-for-every-aspiring-
entrepreneurs/
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Robert T.M, Philip R.H, Sarah, V.M. (2011); Global leaders and Culture managing cultural
differences; Global Leadership strategies for cross-cultural business success.

Shodeinde, L, (NA) ; Uncovering Leadership styles. Culled from

https://www.academia.edu/33595929/Uncovering_Leadership_Styles?
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