Deckard-Exploring Global Leadership Storytelling for Efficacy and Wellbeing among Organizational members

Αρετή (Arete) Journal of Excellence in Global Leadership | Vol. 1 No. 1 | 2022

storytelling research in those locations. During a virtual study abroad in Ireland, location visits consisted of speakers reaching audiences by using global leadership storytelling as defined in this essay through narratives, narration, story, or storytelling. While on a traditional visit to Greece later in the year, the observations were the same as various cadres of visitors and hosts gathered together under generous amounts of global leadership storytelling. Eve n in the researcher’s home culture in the United States, similar storytelling is used copiously around the classroom settings, faculty lounge, and professional development opportunities of his employment. Beyond familiarity with these three regions as a source of comparison for future global leadership research, it is important to point out differences among the nations when comparing the cultural dimension of individualism (Hofstede, 2022). Hofstede is recognized as a leader when comparing cultural dimensions and compares a cultures propensity to be more individualistic or collectivist. By Hofstede’s measure, rank for each nation when presenting strength of individualism were United States (91), Ireland (70), and Greece (35) (Hofstede, 2022). These cultural dimensions, as shown in Table 2, are consistently different across all three countries compared to the other cultural dimensions.

Table 1 Comparison of Cultural Dimensions between Greece, Ireland, and the United States

Source : Hofstede Insights, 2022

These differences, which serve as a representation of individual perceptions of the group or organization, support the effort of studying these different cultures for strong comparisons on global leadership storytelling. Other Applications for the Organization Organizations and their leaders can also seek to understand global leadership storytelling within their institution by following some introspective questions the author

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