The Leadership Across Differences Project

Resources for LAD

Papers

The LAD project has a global dissemination strategy, with a variety of papers and presentations being made to locations around the world. Deliverables have included the following:

LAD 2007 Project Update
A newsletter designed to provide an update on a number of project-related fronts including the development of leadership applications, project funding, the global dissemination of our work, and updates on the project team members.

LAD 2006 Project Update

LAD 2005 Project Update

Leadership in Action Volume 24, Number 3, July/August 2004

Finding Yourself: How Social Identity Affects Leadership
In an increasingly volatile and complex business environment, it's as important as ever for leaders to know themselves. But it's no longer enough for them to understand their capabilities, motivations, styles, and values-they must also gain knowledge of their social identities.
Collision Courses: When Social Identity Leads to Conflict
As people with different social identities increasingly find themselves working together, conflicts are bound to occur. The challenge for leaders is to effectively manage and resolve such conflicts-or prevent them from happening at all.
From the President (*)
A Question of Leadership
How much of themselves should leaders bring to their work?
Issues & Observations
Bridging the Identity Gap
Dividends & Interest
Taking Stock of Our Biases
Face To Face (*)
Living and Learning: A Conversation with Peter M. Senge
Reader Forum
Leadership Lessons from a Whaleboat

Leading Effectively Newsletter - July 2005: Identity: A New View for Leading in a Diverse World
Finding common ground among co-workers isn't easy. Many managers are asking: "How do I lead when everyone seems so different?" Today, organizations - including their suppliers, customers and partners - are increasingly diverse, representing very different perspectives and cultures. While such interaction has many advantages, leaders also need strategies for navigating the challenges associated with religious, ethnic, cultural, gender and racial differences. This month, Leading Effectively breaks away from traditional discussions of "diversity in the workplace" and explores how individual identity affects the leadership dynamic at work.

NC Non-profits Common Ground Newsletter Article
Marian Ruderman and Todd Weber

Printed (or adapted) with the permission of the N.C. Center for Nonprofits

Presentations

International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR) Conference

In July, 2007, several project members attended the 2007 International Academy for Intercultural Research (http://www.interculturalacademy.org/) conference in Groningen, Netherlands and presented, "Social Identity Conflicts in Organisational and Cultural Context: Triggers, Responses and Leadership Practices." Please use the following links to view slides from this conference.

Vijayan Munusamy: Introduction (PDF, 651 KB)

Bill Gentry, Kelly Hannum, Vijayan Munusamy & Todd Weber: Managing Identity Conflicts: Perspectives Across Organisational Level and Culture (PDF, 193 KB)

Marian Ruderman, Todd Weber, Donna Chrobot-Mason, Rachael Isaacs & Chris Ernst: Triggers of Social Identity Conflicts (PDF, 327 KB)

Chris Ernst, Sarah Glover, Donna Chrobot-Mason, Marian Ruderman & Jeffrey Yip: Leadership Practices for Bridging Social Identity Differences (PDF, 584 KB)

The LAD team would also like to recognize and thank Dr. Dharm P. S. Bhawuk of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, for serving as the Discussant for this symposium.

International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) Conference

Several members of the LAD project attended the 2006 International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (http://www.iaccp.org/) conference in Spetses, Greece and participated in the "Leadership in the Context of Social identity Differences" symposium. The following slides and additional materials are from that conference.

Part 1

Maxine Dalton: An introduction to cross-cultural leadership research (PDF, 560 KB)

Donna Chrobot-Mason: When identity groups collide: What we know about cross-cultural leadership in organizations (PDF, 116 KB)

Todd Weber and Kelly Hannum: A cross-cultural research design and conceptual framework for investigating leadership across differences in organizations (PDF, 1.2 MB)

Kelly Hannum and Todd Weber: A quantitative cross-cultural perspective on social identity conflict in organizations (PDF, 351 KB)

Part 2

Marian Ruderman and Donna Chrobot-Mason: Triggers of social identity conflicts (PDF, 186 KB)

Lize Booysen: Social identity tension as a leadership challenge in two organizations in South Africa: A case study (PDF, 240 KB)

David Dinwoodie: Social identity tension as a leadership challenge in two organizations in Spain: A case study (PDF, 437 KB)

CCL Publications

Leading in Black and White: Working Across the Racial Divide in Corporate America, Jossey-Bass, 2003
Ancella B. Livers and Keith A. Caver

Although there is no shortage of information about workplace entry-and-acceptance issues for black managers, the literature is fairly sparse in documenting the unique experiences that black leaders must work through in daily corporate life - such experiences as hiding part of their identity at work, being responsible for the progress of other black managers, sorting out whether race or personality is a factor in a poor working relationship. This book, based on many years experience of dealing with and research on the issues of black managers, shows six areas in which the leadership experience is different for blacks and whites - taking responsibility for others, focusing on identity, mentoring, being politically savvy, understanding the impact of perception about race and gender, and using networking strategies. Included are specific actions for both black managers and those who work with them on how to use these six areas for strengthening individual and organizational relationships.

Standing at the Crossroads: Next Steps for High-Achieving Women, Jossey-Bass, 2002
Marian N. Ruderman and Patricia J. Ohlott

As women move into leadership and managerial positions in record numbers, there is an increasing need to understand how they will prioritize and integrate the many new roles and possibilities available to them. This book, based on extensive research, looks at the fundamental pressures that influence the career and personal decisions high-achieving women make, and identifies strategies for adapting to the many demands that both challenge and enhance their lives.

Success for the New Global Manager: How to Work Across Distances, Countries, and Cultures, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2002
Maxine Dalton, Chris Ernst, Jennifer Deal, and Jean Leslie

Global managers today are not just expatriates. Their roles are far more complex. They work across multiple time zones, country infrastructures, and cultural expectations; all the while coordinating performance results, business acumen, social patterns, and technological advances. How do they understand this role and develop for it? This book, based on extensive studies with more than two hundred managers in thirty countries, first describes this new breed of global manager and then introduces a set of pivotal skills - international business knowledge, cultural adaptability, perspective-taking, and having skill as an innovator - that are essential for adapting to contemporary global leadership requirements.

Additional publications relevant to leadership in the context of difference are also available.

CCL Resources

Bridging Differences Module Overview (PPT, 844 KB)
Open Enrollment Programs
Custom Solutions

Bibliographies

We have compiled a list of relevant articles and references. For your benefit they are grouped by topic, though there is substantial overlap between the topic areas.

LAD Bibliography (PDF, 83 KB)

Links

There are a number of online resources available that are relevant to the topic of leading across differences. The following are included due to the relevance of the subject and do not reflect an endorsement or recommendation of the specific organizations.

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