Sudha Dhakal (York St John University)
ABSTRACT
This systematic literature review offers a critical perspective on cross-Cultural leadership in the context of international management and its application in international human resource management and compliance with standards and governance. The review seeks to look at the specific competencies, approaches and theories relevant in cross cultural leadership. An initial keyword search was conducted using ‘Google Scholar, and ‘Scopus’ databases to select papers for analysis. The most used terminologies were cross-cultural leadership, international project management, cultural intelligence, and human resource management standards. Cross-cultural leadership, international project management, cultural intelligence, and human resource management standards were used as the keywords for sourcing articles that have been reviewed and published within the period of 2000 to 2021. These studies were then critically examined to arrive at the most pertinent information that may be synthesized. That is why the review demonstrates that cultural intelligence is an essential factor that defines the effectiveness of cross border leadership, and crosscultural training increases leaders’ performance for 30% when they work in multicultural enviroment. Also, the review means that the leadership and ethics of organizations from non-Western countries need to be studied more comprehensively, offering ethical solutions that ensure organizational integrity. However, some areas still remain poorly investigated: long-term effects of training, efficiency of the nonwestern leadership paradigms, and the utilization of technologies for the establishing of the cross-cultural leadership. To the best of my knowledge, the study contributes to the existing literature and offers theoretical and managerial implications for the advancement of cross-cultural leadership in .