1. Watch the following video: https://youtu.be/lLO7-bE_Mnw

2.What are your thoughts on the gender differences in leadership?

3.Do you agree or disagree with the claim that "glass ceiling is misleading"? Why

or why not?

4.Do you prefer working for a male or female leader? Why?

5.How can we guard against unconscious bias in the development and promotion

of women leaders?

6. Read the following article byKenny, C. (2012). Liberating leadership theory. In C.

Kenny & T. Fraser (Eds), Living Indigenous leadership: Native narratives on

building strong communities (pp. 10-14). Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.

https://www.ubcpress.ca/asset/9360/1/9780774823463.pdf

7.How do indigenous models of leadership compare with contemporary

non-indigenous theories of leadership?

8.What aspects are at the core of the indigenous leadership practices?

9.What are your thoughts about how indigenous approaches to leadership can

contribute to non-indigenous knowledge, leadership and educational models?

10.Read the following article at the National Communications Association:

https://www.natcom.org/communication-currents/culture-and-deception-moral-tra

nsgression-or-social-necessity

11.What is a cultural self-identity?

12.How do collectivist and individualist cultures differ:

a.On willingness to use deception

b.On rating the deceptiveness of others' messages?

c.On the meaning of morality?

d.On motivation for truth-telling?

13.How do these general cultural norms apply to leaders?

14.The article describes a two-step process to becoming more culturally competent:

(a) Awareness can lead to greater cultural sensitivity; and (b) Greater cultural

sensitivity can lead to a greater ability to adapt one's communication style to the

other. How can leaders adapt their communication styles to another culture

without compromising their authenticity?

15.As international students, answer the following:

a.Have you experienced any cross-cultural misunderstandings such as

those described in the article?

b.How would an American leader need to adapt to your culture in order to

avoid misunderstandings and be effective