GLOBE - Global Leadership and Organizational Behaviour Effectiveness
The GLOBE study was a large-scale research project involving 170 social scientists who surveyed 17,000 managers across 62 cultures. The study identified 9 dimensions of culture, including uncertainty avoidance, power distance, collectivism, and gender egalitarianism. The purpose was to determine which leadership behaviors are universally accepted versus culturally contingent. The study assessed culture from the perspectives of actual cultural practices and cultural values. Figure 9.4 displays the societal culture scores of countries in the "Latin Europe cluster".
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GLOBE - Global Leadership and Organizational Behaviour Effectiveness
The GLOBE study was a large-scale research project involving 170 social scientists who surveyed 17,000 managers across 62 cultures. The study identified 9 dimensions of culture, including uncertainty avoidance, power distance, collectivism, and gender egalitarianism. The purpose was to determine which leadership behaviors are universally accepted versus culturally contingent. The study assessed culture from the perspectives of actual cultural practices and cultural values. Figure 9.4 displays the societal culture scores of countries in the "Latin Europe cluster".
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GLOBE Global Leadership and Organizational Behaviour Effectiveness
Global Leadership and Organizational Behaviour Effectiveness (GLOBE) is a large-scale
research programme which comprised a network of 170 social scientists and management scholars. The study is based on a survey of 17,000 managers from three industries (banking, food processing and telecommunications) across 62 cultures. The GLOBE researchers identified nine dimensions of culture (House et al. 2002; Magnussen et al. 2008, p. 186): 1. Uncertainty avoidance: The extent to which a society tries to avoid the unpredictability of future events, e.g. by relying on rituals or bureaucratic practices. 2. Power Distance: The degree to which members of a culture expect and accept power to be distributed unequally. 3. Collectivism I (Societal Collectivism): The degree to which organisational and societal institutional practices encourage collective distribution of resources and collective action. 4. Collectivism II (In-Group Collectivism): The degree to which individuals express loyalty and cohesiveness in their organisations or families. 5. Gender Egalitarianism: The extent to which a society minimises gender role differences and discrimination. 6. Assertiveness: The degree to which individuals are assertive, confrontational and aggressive in social relationships. 7. Future Orientation: The degree to which individuals engage in futureoriented behaviours such as delaying gratification, planning and investing in the future. 8. Performance Orientation: The extent to which a society encourages and rewards group members for performance improvement and excellence. 9. Humane Orientation: The degree to which individuals encourage and reward individuals for being fair, altruistic, friendly, generous, caring or kind. Figure 9.4
Source: Jesuino 2002, p. 85.
The purpose of the project was to find out which leadership behaviours are universally accepted and which are culturally contingent. While there is some overlap between the Hofstede and GLOBE dimensions, the GLOBE study goes beyond Hofstede's approach, assessing culture from two angles: cultural practices (culture as is) and cultural values (what should be). Figure 9.4 displays the societal culture scores of the Latin Europe cluster, which comprises Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, the French speaking part of Switzerland and Israel.