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Questions: 1.Challenges to anticipate in creating a shared vision for this changed Organization? 2.Internal and External Environmental Factors to consider in carving out a Multicultural Leadership path that will support success of the Organization. 3.How to work differently to Cultivate Organizational support within the different business units that is necessary to ensure the success of the Multicultural leadership effort. Answers: One challenge that the manager will face is integrating the varying needs of business units in different countries to a shared vision. The units exist in different countries with varying business environment and cultures that may be challenging to integrate into one since it is difficult to capture the collective mind and will. Further, Senge (1990, p. 10) adds that the environment may offer different rapid changes that may threaten to craft the vision to pull business needs towards the required organizational vision. The strategy may cause different creative organizational tensions that may require different levels of energy to harness them which may take longer or require more resources to achieve the intended outcome. Management will be forced to develop ways of meeting the varying needs of the business units and align them to the required goals. 2.Internal environment factors are systems, people, structures and conditions inside an organization that are controlled by the company. These factors are associated with the organizational culture and management style that may influence the leadership path to be taken by the organization to achieve the intended outcome. On the other hand, external environmental factors occur outside the organization may cause change since they are not under leadership control (Shieh Wang 2010, p. 299). These include economic forces, competition, customers, political and social conditions. These factors affect growth and long-term sustainability thus the need to monitor them and develop strategies to adapt to the external environment through a reactive approach. Leaders need to scan the environment through monitoring the above factors and develop strategies to accommodate opportunities and resolve threats through adjusting the system to adapt. SWOT and PESTEL analysis are the two tools used to appra ise the organization and change for the environment. 3.Cultivating organizational support requires working with the company to develop new abilities through developing strategic thinking in leaders. Learning systems are characterized by system thinking, mental models, shared visions, team learning, and personal mastery (Senge, et al. 1999, p. 11). Informed learning organization leaders will then work effortlessly to align the organizations culture to its teams. This new culture will form the basis organizational change to adapt to the environment. Strategic leaders work on business changes that exist in the environment through developing their internal abilities to strategic thinking to meet the changing needs. This strategy will help people work together to achieve the business goal despite coming from different units and backgrounds. Further, flattening the leadership structure to create a balance between different units will lead to reduced elitism and focus on business processes(Erbe, 2014). Salaries and responsibilities need to be balanced across the board to create a business environment that meets the needs of the organization rather than the individual. Leaders need to be trained on how to align human resources towards the business strategy at all times to develop business competitiveness. Lastly, motivation can be used to achieve support from different entities within the organization. Since leadership focusses on achieving desired outcomes through providing direction, motivation can be used to elicit certain behaviors in the organization that lead to achieving your multicultural leadership effort. Organizations should strive to meet employee needs for them to fulfill their requirements in the social contract that they have with the business (D'Souza Gurin 2016, p. 8). Different strategies like use of stimulus, employee training, work-life balance and organizational support can be used to create the desired outcomes. References D'Souza, J. Gurin, M., 2016. The universal significance of Maslow's concept of self-actualization. The Humanistic Psychologist, 44(2). Erbe, N., 2014. Approaches to Managing Organizational Diversity and Innovation. Chocolate Avenue: IGI Global Book Series. Senge, P., 1990. The Leader's New Work: Building Learning Organizations. Sloan Management Review, pp. 7-21. Senge, P. et al., 1999. The Dance of Change. NewYork: Currency Doubleday. Shieh, C. Wang, I., 2010. A study of the relationships between corporate core competence management innovation and corporate culture. International Journal of Organiational Innovation, 2(3), pp. 395-411.