Culture, Leadership, and Organizations

The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies

Robert J. House, Paul J. Hanges, Mansour Javidan, Peter W. Dorfman, Vipin Gupta

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN: 9780761924012
• eBook ISBN: 9781452208121
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Organisational Behaviour
• Index: Business

Culture, Leadership, and Organizations reports the results of a ten-year research program, the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) research program. GLOBE is a long-term program designed to conceptualize, operationalize, test, and validate a cross-level integrated theory of the relationship between culture and societal, organizational, and leadership effectiveness. A team of 160 scholars worked together since 1994 to study societal culture, organizational culture, and attributes of effective leadership in 62 cultures. Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies reports the findings of the first two phases of GLOBE.  The book is primarily based on the results of the survey of over 17,000 middle managers in three industries: banking, food processing, and telecommunications, as well as archival measures of country economic prosperity and the physical and psychological well-being of the cultures studied.    

GLOBE has several distinguishing features. First, it is truly a cross-cultural research program. The constructs were defined, conceptualized, and operationalized by the multicultural team of researchers. Second, the industries were selected through a polling of the country investigators, and the instruments were designed with the full participation of the researchers representing the different cultures. Finally, the data in each country were collected by investigators who were either natives of the cultures studied or had extensive knowledge and experience in that culture.  

A unique feature of this book is that while it is an edited book and many experts have written the different chapters, unlike other edited books, it is a fully integrated, seamless, and cohesive book covering the many aspects of the theory underpinning the GLOBE.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Part I - Introduction
• Chapter 1 - Illustrative Examples of Globe Findings
• Chapter 2 - Overview of Globe
• Chapter 3 - A Nontechnical Summary of Globe Findings
• Part II - Prior Literature
• Chapter 4 - Cultural Influences on Organizational Leadership: Literature Review, Theoretical Rationale, and Globe Project Goals
• Chapter 5 - The Impact of Societal Culture and Industry on Organizational Culture: Theoretical Explanations
• Part III - Research Methodology
• Chapter 6 - Research Design
• Chapter 7 - The Linkage Between Globe Findings and Other Cross-Cultural Information
• Chapter 8 - The Development and Validation of the Globe Culture and Leadership Scales
• Chapter 9 - Multisource Construct Validity of Globe Scales
• Chapter 10 - Regional and Climate Clustering of Societal Cultures
• Chapter 11 - Rationale for Globe Statistical Analyses: Societal Rankings and Test of Hypotheses
• Part IV - Empirical Findings
• Chapter 12 - Performance Orientation
• Chapter 13 - Future Orientation
• Chapter 14 - Cross-Cultural Differences in Gender Egalitarianism: Implications for Societies, Organizations, and Leaders
• Chapter 15 - Assertiveness
• Chapter 16 - Individualism and Collectivism
• Chapter 17 - Power Distance
• Chapter 18 - Humane Orientation in Societies, Organizations, and Leader Attributes
• Chapter 19 - Uncertainty Avoidance
• Chapter 20 - Societal Culture and Industrial Sector Influences on Organizational Culture
• Chapter 21 - Leadership and Cultural Variation: The Identification of Culturally Endorsed Leadership Profiles
• Part V - Conclusion
• Chapter 22 - Conclusions and Future Directions
• Appendix A: Societal-Level Correlations Among Globe Societal Culture Scales
• Appendix B: Response Bias Correction Procedure Used in Globe
• Appendix C: Evidence for Contextual Effects
• Appendix D: Confidence Interval Estimation of Correlations
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors