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Interactive Teaching Methods: The Stakeholder Challenge for Global Leaders. Joyce Osland Lucas Endowed Professor of Global Leadership San Jose State University osland_j@cob.sjsu.edu. A Process Definition of Global Leadership.
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Interactive Teaching Methods:The Stakeholder Challenge for Global Leaders Joyce Osland Lucas Endowed Professor of Global Leadership San Jose State University osland_j@cob.sjsu.edu
A Process Definition of Global Leadership The process of influencing the thinking, attitudes, and behaviors of a global community to work together synergistically toward a common vision and common goals (Adler, 2001; Festing, 2001)
Why Is Global Leadership Important in Business? A majority of executives reported leadership shortages to deal with future global business risks that threaten corporate performance in a study of 223 senior executives from large firms in 17 industries in 44 countries. (Mercer Delta, 2006) Developing global competence in leaders is a high priority for firms (Suutari, 2002)
Why Is Global Leadership Important to All of Us? Rand study predicts a future global leadership gap in the for-profit, public, and non-profit sectors (Bikson, Treverton, Moini, & Lindstrom, 2003)
GLD Learning Process Contrast Confrontation Replacement or Remapping (Black & Gregersen, 2000; Oddou & Oddou, 2008)
High Global Leadership Development Methodologies High Potential For Remapping International Assignments Personal work Experience 50% Degree of Experiential Rigor Sophisticated simulations Planned field experiences Global assessment centers Strategic intl. business travel Global virtual teams Info Exchange w/others 30% Global task forces Global project teams Intl. exposure trips Role playing Case Analysis Business seminars Cultural assimilator training Films/books Lecture High Low Self-study Language training Classroom 20% Cultural briefings Number and Valence of Feedback Sources
What Is Stakeholder Dialogue? • A global leadership competency that involves working cooperatively with and influencing multiple parties. • “The art of thinking together” (William Isaacs) • “a collective, multiparty conversation that seeks to draw on the understanding of all parties to develop win-win solutions that none of them, acting alone, could have envisioned or implemented.”
Along with ecological risk, expanding inequality is the most serious problem facing world society. Anthony Giddens, 1999
Aracruz Simulation Stakeholders • Aracruz Celulose S. A. Executive • Indigenous and landless workers in Espiritu Santo, Brazil • International NGO representative • Funai (National Indigenous Peoples Foundation) • The community
Aracruz Simulation Sources • Reade, C., Todd, A. M., Osland, A, & Osland, J. (2008) “Poverty and the Multiple Stakeholder Challenge for Global Leaders” Journal of Management Education. http://jme.sagepub.com/cgi/rapidpdf/1052562908317445v1 (Simulation instructions) • Osland, A. & Osland J. (2007) Aracruz Celulose: Best practices icon but still at risk. International Journal of Manpower, 28(5): 435-450. (more in-depth information on the controversy and stakeholders) • http://www.aracruz.com