How do the dimensions of culture influence the relationship between leadership and cooperation?

Question

How do the dimensions of culture influence the relationship between leadership and cooperation?

Answer 1

The dimensions of culture influence the relationship between leadership and cooperation in the age old fault line of communication. Considering the diversities within even the same cultures today the dimension of even one culture might be wide spread. Good cooperation means understanding. It seems that there is to little being done in corporations as well as countries to narrow the gap in all the different cultures. The push seems to be toward assimilation which does not help in the cooperation process but rather drags a red herring across the path.

Answer 2

I believe there is more than communicaton (or the lack of it) at fault. Communication is necessary, of course, but one also has to consider the biases that exist, one culture to another as well as intraculturally. These biases cannot be disolved by communication alone. Some if not most of them are of a religious nature, and religious bias tends to be a tough nut to crack. For at least 6000 years the Arab and Hebrew cultures have harboured intense animosity for each other, in the face of many attempts at cross cultural communication.

In cases such as this, I believe the best one can hope for is an "agree to disagree" comprimise and even then the situations will remain volitile. The same sort of bias exists between muslim extremists and the west. They dispise us, bottom line, and would prefer to see us exterminated. There IS NO communitcating in this arena. No peace talks, no accords will work. Again the best one can hope for is a stand-off, which will be  tentative at best.

It may be a little easier to achieve a cooperative working relationship in commerce, or in the corporate world, domestic and international, since profit is at stake. However, even there one is confronted almost daily with predudice, bias, religious and cultural differences which cannot always be overcome. Here the agree to disagree approach with an emphasis in respecting others' differences is probably the best one can hope for.

IMHO