Strengthening Cross-cultural Leadership and facilitating greater Cooperation between Chinese and Foreign Teachers

Abstract

The principal objectives of this study are to explore which factors in Cross-cultural educational teams have a greater impact upon the effectiveness of cooperation, and prescribe methods through which to improve the performance of cross-cultural teams. More specifically, this study sets out to enhance cross-cultural leadership and propose strategies to improve the level of cooperation between Chinese and foreign teachers. The paper is structured as follows. The paper first analyzes the theoretical basis of cross-cultural leadership, then proceeds to discuss both the content structure model of cross-cultural leadership that was constructed and the questionnaire we designed, before delineating a strategy for improving leadership of cross-cultural teams. The results of the study demonstrate that subsequent to improving cross-cultural leadership, the comprehensive evaluation result of the effectiveness of Chinese and foreign teachers' cooperation improved from 79.34 to 92.13. This indicates that leveraging cross-cultural leadership can both facilitate greater mutual understanding and enhance the effectiveness of the cooperation between Chinese and foreign teachers, which, in turn, results in the efficient completion of relevant work.