Explain Why Participative Leadership Should Work Best in Low-Power-Distance Cultures

question 40

Essay

Explain why participative leadership should work best in low-power-distance cultures, such as Canada, while directive leadership would work best in high-power-distance societies, such as the Philippines.

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Definitions:

Proactive Interference

The effect wherein earlier memories hinder the ability to remember more recent memories.

Retroactive Interference

A memory disruption phenomenon where new information interferes with the ability to recall old information.

Memorization

The process of committing something to memory or learning it by heart.

Hindsight Bias

The inclination to think, following an event, that one could have foreseen or anticipated the result, commonly called the "I-knew-it-all-along" effect.