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Research suggests that cultural diversity in the workplace has significant potential to enhance business success. It is therefore important that business coaches working in a global marketplace understand diversity and develop an understanding of the multicultural issues facing coaches and their coachees on a daily basis. This chapter reviews the contemporary literature on managing diversity, cultural competence, leadership as a function of cultural difference, and coaching across cultures. Cross-cultural research suggests that culture strongly influences leadership concepts, often in unconscious ways. Understanding diversity and multiculturalism is a critical competence for a business coach, broadening their understanding of the social and workplace context and equipping them to better support organizational clients.
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Stout-Rostron, S. (2018). Culturality in Coaching. In: Greif, S., Möller, H., Scholl, W. (eds) Handbuch Schlüsselkonzepte im Coaching. Springer Reference Psychologie . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49483-7_30
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