Interactive Teaching Methods: The Stakeholder Challenge for Global Leaders

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Interactive Teaching MethodsThe Stakeholder
Challenge for Global Leaders

• Joyce Osland
• Lucas Endowed Professor of Global Leadership
• San Jose State University
• osland_j_at_cob.sjsu.edu

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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)

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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)

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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)

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GLD Learning Process
Contrast
Confrontation
Replacement or Remapping
(Black Gregersen, 2000 Oddou Oddou, 2008)
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High
High Potential For Remapping
Global Leadership Development Methodologies
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
Self-study
Low
Language training
Classroom 20
Cultural briefings
Number and Valence of Feedback Sources
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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.

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• Along with ecological risk, expanding inequality
  is the most serious problem facing world society.
• Anthony Giddens, 1999

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Stakeholder Dialogue Simulations
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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

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Aracruz Simulation Design
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Aracruz Simulation Design
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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/10525629083174
  45v1 (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