Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies

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Synopsis

The Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) research program investigated, over the course of ten years, the links between culture and conceptions of leadership at the levels of organization, industry, and society. The result of the research program is this report, describing the results of testing 27 hypotheses about the links between cultural practices and values and leadership effectiveness. The cultural variables identified and analyzed for the research are future orientation, gender equality, assertiveness, humane orientation, in-group collectivism, institutional collectivism, performance orientation, power distance, and uncertainty avoidance. The study examined 951 organizations in 62 countries. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Biography

Degree: PhD in strategic management, Carlson School, University of Minnesota.

Current Affiliation: Faculty of Management, university of Calgary, Canada

Research Interests: Teaching, research, and consulting interests are in the areas of strategic management, top management performance, cross-cultural leadership, and

cross-border mergers. Mansour is the Country Close Up editor of the

Academy of Management Executive. Mansour has designed and taught a variety

of executive development courses, offered and facilitated workshops,

conducted consulting projects, and made presentations in 17 countries.

 

 

Peter Dorfman

Degree, including type and when and where it was received:

Ph.D.: University of Maryland, 1970-72

Major: Engineering Psychology

Minor & Interest Areas: Statistics -- Quantitative Analysis; Industrial &

Organizational Psychology

Current Affiliation: Management Department, College of Business Administration

& Economics, New Mexico State University

Research Interests: Peter W. Dorfman is a full Professor and the Department Head of the Department of Management, NMSU. Dr. Dorfman's research interests span both the human resources management and organizational behavior fields. His articles on

leadership, cross-cultural management, and employee discrimination have appeared

in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Academy

of Management Review, Journal of Management, and Advances inInternational

Comparative Management, among others. He is currently investigating the impact

of cultural influences on managerial behavior and leadership styles. In addition, he is an expert witness and consultant in employee discrimination and sexual harassment cases

Paul J. Hanges

Degree: Ph.D. Industrial/Organizational Psychology, 1986, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio

Current Affiliation: University of Maryland

Research Interests: Paul's research interests center around topics in social cognition, cross-cultural leadership, research methodology, and personnel selection. The majority of his work has focused on understanding factors affecting social perceptions (e.g., leadership) and the factors (e.g., societal culture, gender stereotypes, personality) that cause these perceptions to stabilize or change over time. Paul has developed a dynamic measure of perception and explored the utility of various mathematical models (e.g., catastrophe analysis, neural network analysis) to model changes in leadership ratings over time. His methodology work has dealt with such topics as multilevel statistical modeling, range restriction, and test banding methodology. His work has appeared in such journal as Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Applied Psychology, Applied Psychology: An International Review, Applied Psychological Measurement, Educational and Psychological Measurement, and Leadership Quarterly. He is currently an associate editor of Leadership Quarterly.