The paper presents the necessity for a more profound understanding of the leader’s relationship on a cultural and national stage, while considering several factors: globalising economies, internationalising businesses, the existence of work teams that contain people of various cultures. The personality, efforts and style of a leader can result or be in conflict with the working environment. Therefore, a leader belonging to a certain culture should adopt various attitudes and behaviours so as to generate a range of influences, adequate for achieving the organizations objectives. Leaders must know the culture, history and expectations of the working environment in order to develop a style of leadership suitable for each unique and complex context.

organizational culture, national culture, heterogeneous workforce, multicultural leadership