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

by Robert J. House (Editor)

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 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 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.

Genres: Business, Leadership

848 pages, Hardcover

First published April 29, 2004

Reviews

[Sue]

This book provides the insight on global management and organizational structure reviewing not just one culture but 62 various ones. For example, the United States has one set way of performing business with customers and vendors yet when reviewing how these same daily business operations are managed from an international perspective in areas such as Germany or Russia the differences are quite apparent. Furthermore, in areas such as Hong Kong, Japan, or even Thailand, it is very alive with culture and high ethical standards for business practice.

[Sagar Sen]

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