Effect of Cultural Intelligence and Learning Style on Leadership Effectiveness: Conceptual Analysis

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of Cultural Intelligence and Learning Style on Leadership Effectiveness among the leaders, particularly in banking sector.  This study has proposed cultural intelligence and Learning Style as independent variables in this study. Leadership Effectiveness is the dependent variable. The study has reviewed various scholarly articles to examine the effect of cultural intelligence and learning style on leadership effectiveness. All the articles reviewed in this paper are empirical and conceptual papers design to collect quantitative data. Therefore, this conceptual paper intends to conduct the research among the bank leaders in Klang Valley in Malaysia. Based on the available literature it was found that cultural intelligence has a mixed result on leadership effectiveness. However, majority of the past research reported that cultural intelligence has a positive and significant effect on leadership effectiveness. From the review, it was also found that there is lack of studies examining learning style effect on leadership effectiveness particularly in Banking Sector. This study will contribute by establishing the link between cultural intelligence, learning style and leadership effectiveness simultaneously. Also, this study will be able to use by training and development of banking companies to design the training program to enhance, cultural intelligence and to adopt appropriate learning style to improve leadership effectiveness in Banking Sector, particularly in Malaysia. In this study, it was proposed to examine the effect of learning style and cultural intelligence on leadership effectiveness among the bank leaders simultaneously, while in the past cultural intelligence was conducted to examine the effect on leadership effectiveness, while there was a lack of literature on learning style and leadership effectiveness.