Uthayasuriyan, K. and M Kanaga,.
The perception of employees on inclusive leadership practices in global organizations.
- South Asian Journal of Socio-Political Studies
- 25(2), Jan-Jun, 2025: p.97-100
The role of leader is crucial in driving performance in a globally diverse and inclusive environment. Diversity exists today in just about every part of the world and every industrial sector. As the world becomes “flat” and organizations continue to globalize, a diverse workforce is commonplace. Global organizations understand that a diverse workforce can be the primary source of competitive advantage. Global and culturally diverse teams experience heightened risks and opportunities, but high team performance occurs if the team leader drives performance through inclusiveness. The concept of Inclusion, defined as “a sense of belonging: feeling respected, valued for who you are; feeling a level of supportive energy and commitment from others so that you can do your best”. There is a view that sees Inclusive Leadership as a tool, not only to enhance diversity but also to increase business and individual performance. In this context, this study is a modest attempt on ‘Inclusive Leadership’, an emerging concept of Global Human Resource Management, with a prime objective of examining the perception of employees on inclusive leadership practices in global organizations. The study is based on primary data. Data had been collected from the sample respondents drawn from global organizations in IT sector situated in Tamil Nadu State with a help of specially constructed questionnaire consists of Twelve Traits and Forty elements of inclusiveness. Based on the perception of the respondents it is evident that the concept of Inclusiveness is practiced in IT sector and Inclusive Leadership style is extensively practiced in manufacturing companied to ITES / BPO Companies and Service Companies.- Reproduced
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