Leadership Style: Differences between Expatriates and Locals

Abstract

Care should be taken by companies investing in any foreign country (particularly a country new to industry) to measure the preferred style of leadership of the workforce, and to get that style observed by the indigenous work groups and by those workers supplied by the expatriate manager; if this is not done, job satisfaction and commitment to the company is low. Also, it is necessary in order to keep the local population amenable to expansion. An Australian project in Papua New Guinea ran into trouble when local villagers refused exploration beyond the lease site.

Citation

Savery, L.K. and Swain, P.A. (1985), "Leadership Style: Differences between Expatriates and Locals", Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol. 6 No. 4, pp. 8-11. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb053579