ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the dearth of cross-cultural coaching literature, the wider literature categories explored and the contribution of the literature to the development of the Cross-Cultural Kaleidoscope model. The Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness study House et al. is a research study focused on culture and leadership in sixty-one nations. The study took place over several years and identified six global leadership dimensions: charismatic/value-based, team-oriented, participative, humane-oriented, autonomous, and self-protective. The Schwartz Value Survey identified fifty-six values and by 1995 had surveyed 25,000 people in forty countries. The World Values Survey measured attitudes, values, and beliefs concerning politics, economics, religion, sexual behaviour, gender roles, family values, and ecological concerns from forty societies, representing seventy per cent of the population. Low power distance indicator score will indicate an egalitarian approach to decision-making, where it is expected that authority should be challenged or at least questioned by subordinates.
