Product Description

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. (20050301)

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #225706 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-29
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 848 pages

Review
"In his introduction, editor House succinctly points out that 'as economic borders come down, cultural barriers will most likely go up and present new challenges and opportunities in business.' The GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness) research project scientists set out to better understand how culture influences leadership and organizational behavior by studying 62 societies over a ten-year period. These sutdies will expand readers' understanding of varying values and practices across cultures and help prepare them for functioning in a world where global collaborations have become essential to business survival. This book is itself a product of cross-cultrual collaborative efforts. The 170 social scientists and management scholars from across the world met the challenges of meshing their cultural values and practices in producing this fluid and coherent series of studies, which fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. This volume will be of value to those intrested in cross-cultural studies, particularly as an extension of work by Geert Hofstede (e.g., Culture's Consequences, 2nd ed., 2001) and others...Highly recommended." (A. Hirsa CHOICE 20060609)

"These studies will expand readers' understanding of varying values and practices acoss cultures and help prepare them for functioning in a world where global collaborations have become essential to business survival. This book is itself a product of cross-cultural collaborative efforts. The 170 social scientists and management scholars from across the world met the challenges of meshing their cultural values and practices in producing this fluid and coherent series of studies, which fir together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Summing up: Highly recommended." (A. Hirsa CHOICE )

About the Author

Mansour Javidan

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 in International

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.

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Customer Reviews

A Comprehensive Assessment of Cultures
As American business becomes more global, we need to be more alert to differences in cultures. Most of us know at some level that other cultures do not think and operate the way that we do. But we struggle to identify the differences. Sometimes we rely on anecdotes and examples. Sometimes we rely on popular journalism, especially about India and China. Sometimes we rely on stereotypes (the way the French or the Japanese are). All of these are incomplete.
Robert House and his colleagues offer a comprehensive framework, based on very solid research, to understand the differences in cultures. They have identified 9 factors that differentiate cultures. Among the nine are how much the society is oriented toward meeting challenges and how much distance there is between the most and least powerful people. The US for example scores mid range on performance and low on power distance (gap between most and least is relatively small).
House's framework alerts us to differences in dealing with organizations and people in other societies. For example, the Germans have a stronger performance orientation and greater power distance. So in working with Germans we have to be sensitive to their greater attention to results and to power differences.
The book was written for academics, with Part 2 devoted to a detailed explanation of methodology. I believe that the book offers a lot of value to any practitioner who is seriously interested in understanding these culture differences. In particular, Part 3 offers a thoughtful explanation of the differences among cultures on each of the 9 dimensions. It is a tough read, but worth it, for anyone serious about learning to operate in the global economy.

Culture, Leadership and organizations: The Globe Study of 62 societies
Though this book is rather expensive, it is worth the price. It gives a very good overview of both societal and organizational cultures in the 62 countries described. It helps understanding the challenges of multicultural teams. In combination with books written by Trompenaars and Hofstede a good insight can be developed in the backgrounds of behaviour and attitude of people in organizations with a multi cultural composition.

Worth it. Even thought it is a hefty price
This book will displace Hofstede's seminal work on culture because it provides the most up do date survey data on cultural values of countries. It is also a very useful leadership reference book. A bit on the expensive side, but then you are buying the Rolls Royce of culture books. To supplement this book regarding leadership in general a couple of leadership reference books would be useful (e.g., "Handbook of Leadership" by Bernard Bass--very complete, or more compact versions like "Leadership in Organizations" by Yukl or "The nature of Leadership" by Antonakis).