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Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies ( Sage Publications, Inc )
Release Date: 2004-04-29
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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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 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.
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 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.
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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).
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