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'Leadership, Culture and Organizations' reports the results of a ten-year research program, the Global Leadership and Organizational Behaviour Effectiveness research program (GLOBE). 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. Leadership, Culture, and Organizations 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." - from publisher.

Foreword --- Preface --- PART I: INTRODUCTION --- 1. Illustrative examples of GLOBE findings --- 2. Overview of GLOBE --- 3. A non-technical summary of GLOBE findings --- PART: II PRIOR LITERATURE --- 4. Cultural influences on organizational leadership: Literature review, theoretical rationale and GLOBE project goals --- 5. The Impact of societal culture and industry on organizational culture: theoretical explanations --- PART III: RESEARCH METHODOLGY --- 6. Research design --- 7. The linkage between GLOBE findings and other cross-cultural information --- 8. The development and validation of the GLOBE culture and leadership scales --- 9. Multi-source construct validity of GLOBE Scales --- 10. Regional and climate clustering of societal cultures --- 11. Rational for GLOBE statistical analyses: societal rankings and test of hypotheses --- PART IV: EMPIRICAL FINDINGS --- 12. Performance orientation --- 13. Future orientation --- 14. Cross-cultural differences in gender egalitarianism: implications for societies, organizations, and leaders --- 15. Assertiveness --- 16. Individual and collectivism --- 17. Power distance --- 18. Humane orientation in societies, organizations, and leader attributes --- 19. Uncertainty avoidance --- 20. Societal, cultural, and industry influences on organizational culture --- 21. Leadership and cultural variation: the identification of culturally endorsed leadership profiles --- PART V: CONCLUSION --- 22. Conclusions and future directions --- Appendix A: Societal-level correlations among GLOBE societal culture scales --- Appendix B: Response bias correction procedure used in GLOBE --- Appendix C: Evidence for contextual effects --- Appendix D: Confidence interval estimation of correlations..