The Role of Inclusive Leadership

Inclusive Leadership
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Inclusive Leadership
Corporations rely on diversity and multidisciplinary teams to combine collective capabilities and unite people from distinct backgrounds to meet organizational goals and objectives. In particular, bringing individuals from different cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, or places together does not guarantee a high firm’s performance. Inclusive leadership must be involved to ensure that all members feel that they are treated fairly and respectfully and that their contributions are highly valued. That is the only way that people from different backgrounds develop a sense of belonging to the company and become inspired and confident. As such, inclusive leadership plays significant role in influencing the organizational culture among a diverse global group of employees.
The Role of Inclusive Leadership in Influencing Organizational Culture among a Diverse Global Group of Employees
Inclusive leadership significantly affects an organizational culture, which determines how employees interact and socialize with others at the workplace. Specifically, organizational culture refers to the collection of practices, expectations, values, assumptions, and beliefs that inform and guide team members’ actions. A good organizational culture usually exemplifies positive traits among workers, resulting in improved firm performance (Qi, Liu, & Hu, 2019). On the contrary, a dysfunctional organizational culture hinders a firm’s success. Andrea Titus and Juliet Bourke argue that teams that inclusive leaders are 17% more likely in reporting high performance and 20% more likely in saying that they make high-quality decisions. Additionally, workers are 29% more likely to behave collaboratively in all activities they perform (Bourke & Titus, 2019). Inclusive leadership increases work attendance and reduce absenteeism since employees are passionate and like what they do. Besides, inclusive leaders communicate effectively with others and allow members to participate in the decision-making process. They value diversity, cultural agility, and enhances cross-cultural team interaction. In that light, employees from one company can interact with others in other branches to facilitate the success of an entire organization. Firms have realized that inclusivity, diversity, and cultural agility can contribute to better performance at distinctive organizational levels (Kuknor & Bhattacharya, 2020). As a result, inclusive leadership fosters workers to embrace workforce diversity, appropriate behaviors, cohesiveness, interpersonal communication skills, and high interaction levels, which positively influence organizational culture. 
Leadership Characteristics that Yield the Greatest Influence in the Creation of Organizational Culture
The leadership characteristics that yield a significant influence in creating an organizational culture are inclusivity, effective communication, and embracing diversity. Notably, the inclusion of diverse perspectives at the workplace encourages employees to create a unified firm, where workers from distinct cultural, ethnic, or racial back...