Why are Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) clusters helpful to multinational managers?
Global Organizational behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) is a project launched in 1993 and did investigation on the effects of different cultures on the style of leadership globally. The project was under taken in 62 societies and nine dimensions were formed. These are performance orientation, future orientation, assertiveness, power distance, humane orientation, institutional collectivism, in-group collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, and gender equality.
With these dimensions it was established that a good leader had the following characteristics: charismatic, participative, human oriented and ambitious. It was also discovered the there were attributes that contributed to effective leadership, that inhibited it and some that caused either contributive or that inhibit depending on the specific culture.
The project now uses its findings to teach effective managers how to handle and inspire its stuff. It is divided into three stages each involving a set of books allocated to each in order to teach the managers of the differences in cultures and how to overcome them.
With the mastering of the nine dimension one can achieve effective management. There are six leadership dimensions. These are culturally endorsed implicit theories of leadership, culturally endorsed leadership theory dimension, global leadership dimensions and global leader behaviors, second order factors and CLTs- Cultural Leadership Theory.
The above six dimensions are not the qualifications of an effective leader but a means of identifying one. By combining the nine dimensions with the characteristics of an effective leader and the six theories of leadership a can achieve being a successful leader.
References
Culture, leadership, and organizations: the GLOBE study of 62 societies By Robert J. House, Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness Research Program
Gupta, Vipin; Hanges, Paul J.; Dorfman, Peter (2002), “Cultural clusters: methodology and findings”, Journal of World Business 37: 11–15
