Includes bibliographical references and index.

Illustrative Examples of GLOBE Findings / Robert J. House -- Increased Globalization of Business -- The Increased Importance of Sensitivity to Cultural Differences -- Differing Views and Conceptualizations of Leadership -- An Illustration of Differences and Cultural Practices -- Differences in Leadership Practices -- Plan of This Book -- Overview of GLOBE / Robert J. House, Mansour Javidan -- Major Questions Concerning the Effects of Cultures on the Practice of Leadership -- The Need for Cross-Cultural Leadership Theory and Research -- The GLOBE Research Program -- Leader Behavior and Attributes -- Qualitative Research -- Construct Definitions of Leadership and Culture -- GLOBE Operational Definition of Culture -- The GLOBE Conceptual Model -- The Integrated Theory -- Two Fundamental Cross-Cultural Issues -- The GLOBE Questionnaire Scales -- Phase 2 Hypotheses -- Strengths of the GLOBE Research Design -- Structural Contingency Theory -- A Nontechnical Summary of GLOBE Findings / Mansour Javidan, Robert J. House, Peter W. Dorfman -- Societal Cultures -- Societal Culture and Organizational Culture -- Culture and Societal Effectiveness -- Culture and Leadership -- Leadership Profiles of Cultural Clusters -- Culture Dimensions and Leadership CLTs -- Prior Literature / Peter W. Dorfman -- Cultural Influences on Organizational Leadership: Literature Review, Theoretical Rationale, and GLOBE Project Goals / Peter W. Dorfman, Robert J. House -- Cultural Convergence: How Far Will It Go? -- Varied Perspectives of Leadership -- Western-Dominated Leadership Research -- The GLOBE Definition of Leadership -- Varied Perspectives on Culture -- Prior Empirical Research: Culture and Leadership -- Leadership Topics Studied Within a Cross-Cultural Leadership Framework -- Non-Western Conceptualizations of Leadership -- Three Competing Propositions: Cultural Congruence, Cultural Difference, and Near Universality of Leader Behaviors -- Conclusion: Cultural Influences on Leadership and GLOBE Goals -- Summary: Anticipated Theoretical and Practical Contributions of Project GLOBE -- The Impact of Societal Culture and Industry on Organizational Culture: Theoretical Explanations / Marcus W. Dickson, Renee S. BeShears, Vipin Gupta -- GLOBE's Cultural Dimensions: Values and Practices -- Levels of Impact on Organizational Culture -- Explanatory Mechanisms -- Additional Mechanisms of Influence -- Concluding Examples and Research Agenda -- Research Methodology / Paul J. Hanges -- Research Design / Robert J. House, Paul J. Hanges -- Sampling Design -- GLOBE Measures -- Unique Strengths of the GLOBE Research Design -- The Linkage Between GLOBE Findings and Other Cross-Cultural Information / Mansour Javidan, Markus Hauser -- The Human Development Report -- Global Competitiveness Rankings by the World Economic Forum -- World Development Indicators -- The World Values Survey -- Creating the Relevant Archival Data Factors -- The Impact of National Wealth -- The Development and Validation of the GLOBE Culture and Leadership Scales / Paul J. Hanges, Marcus W. Dickson -- Questionnaire Scale Development -- Final Sample and Confirmation of Measurement Scales -- Multisource Construct Validity of GLOBE Scales / Vipin Gupta, Mary Sully de Luque, Robert J. House -- Developing Unobtusive Measures of the GLOBE Societal Cultural Practices Scales -- Questionnaire Validation Measures for GLOBE Societal Value Scales -- Regional and Climate Clustering of Societal Cultures / Vipin Gupta, Paul J. Hanges -- Regional Clustering of Societal Cultures -- Empirical Test of Societal Clusters -- Implications for Theory Building -- Climatic Clustering of Societal Cultures -- Rationale for GLOBE Statistical Analyses: Societal Rankings and Test of Hypotheses / Paul J. Hanges, Marcus W. Dickson, Mina T. Sipe -- Ranking of GLOBE Societies and the Application of Test Banding -- Statistical Analyses Testing Main GLOBE Hypotheses -- Empirical Findings / Mansour Javidan -- Performance Orientation / Mansour Javidan -- Comparison of High Versus Low Performance-Oriented Societies -- GLOBE Measures of Performance Orientation -- GLOBE Findings on Performance Orientation -- GLOBE Performance Orientation and Other Economic and Social Indicators -- Performance Orientation and Society Demographics -- Comparison of GLOBE Findings With Relevant Literature -- Performance Oriented as a Dimension of Organizational Culture -- The Relationship Between Societal and Organizational Practices and Societal and Organizational Values -- Performance Oriented as a Leadership Characteristic -- Society Demographics and Leadership Performance Orientation -- The Relationship Between Performance Oriented as a Societal Dimension and Performance Oriented as a Leadership Characteristic -- Interpretation of HLMs Using Performance Orientation to Predict Culturally Endorsed Leadership -- Future Orientation / Neal Ashkanasy, Vipin Gupta, Melinda S. Mayfield, Edwin Trevor-Roberts -- Historical and Philosophical Overview -- Concept of Future Orientation -- Correlates of Future Orientation -- GLOBE Measures of Future Orientation -- GLOBE Findings on Societal Future Orientation -- Comparison of GLOBE Findings With Previous Studies -- Economic and Social Correlates of GLOBE Societal Future Orientation -- Future Orientation and Geographical Clusters -- GLOBE Findings on Organizational Future Orientation -- GLOBE Findings on Future Orientation and Visionary Leadership -- GLOBE Future Orientation and Culturally Endorsed Leadership -- Cross-Cultural Differences in Gender Egalitarianism: Implications for Societies, Organizations, and Leaders / Cynthia G. Emrich, Florence L. Denmark, Deanne N. Den Hartog -- Hofstede's Masculinity/Femininity Dimension of Societal Culture -- The Larger Context of Gender Egalitarianism -- Comparison of High Versus Low Gender Egalitarianism Societies -- GLOBE Measures of Gender Egalitarianism -- GLOBE Findings on Gender Egalitarianism -- GLOBE Gender Egalitarianism and Other Economic and Social Indicators -- Gender Egalitarianism and Society Demographics -- Gender Egalitarianism and Other Gender-Related Measures -- Gender Egalitarianism as a Dimension of Organizational Culture -- The Relationship Between Societal and Organizational Practices and Societal and Organizational Values -- Interpretation of HLMs Using GLOBE Gender Egalitarianism to Predict Culturally Endorsed Leadership -- Gender Differences on CLT Leadership Ratings and Cultural Dimension Values and Practices -- Assertiveness / Deanne N. Den Hartog -- Literature on the Concept of Assertiveness -- A Psychological Perspective -- The GLOBE Measures of Assertiveness -- The Findings: The Overall and Industry Scores on Societal Assertiveness -- GLOBE Assertiveness and Hofstede's (1980) Masculinity Scale -- GLOBE Assertiveness and Other Economic and Social Indicators -- Assertiveness, Climate, and Country Demographics -- Assertiveness as a Dimension of Organizational Culture: Background -- The Relationship Between Societal and Organizational Practices and Societal and Organizational Values -- Assertiveness as a Predictor of Culturally Endorsed Leadership Theories -- Individualism and Collectivism / Michele J. Gelfand, Dharm P. S. Bhawuk, Lisa Hisae Nishii, David J. Bechtold -- Historical Overview -- Overview of Empirical Research on Individualism and Collectivism -- Overall Summary -- Correlates of Individualism and Collectivism at the Societal Level of Analysis -- Implications of Individualism and Collectivism for Organizations -- Implications of Individualism and Collectivism for Leadership -- Overview of GLOBE Research on Individualism and Collectivism -- GLOBE Measures -- GLOBE Results: Societal Level -- GLOBE Results: Organizational Level -- GLOBE Results: Relationship Between Societal and Organizational Practices and Societal and Organizational Values -- GLOBE Findings: Individualism and Collectivism and Implicit Theories of Effective Leadership -- Differences in Perception of Leadership Across Levels -- Power Distance / Dale Carl, Vipin Gupta, Mansour Javidan -- Roots of Power Distance -- Comparison of High Versus Low Power Distance Societies -- GLOBE's Conceptualization and Measures of Power Distance -- GLOBE Findings on Power Distance -- GLOBE Power Distance and Hofstede's Power Distance Index -- Power Distance and Other GLOBE Cultural Dimensions -- Industry and Power Distance -- Geographical Regions and Power Distance -- Climatic Regions and Societal Power Distance -- Power Distance and Culturally Endorsed Leadership -- Power Distance and Archival Data -- Humane Orientation in Societies, Organizations, and Leader Attributes / Hayat Kabasakal, Muzaffer Bodur -- Literature on the Concept of Humane Orientation -- Comparison of High Versus Low Humane Orientation Societies -- GLOBE Measures of Humane Orientation -- GLOBE Findings: Humane Orientation -- Humane Orientation and Other Economic and Social Indicators -- Humane Orientation and Country Demographics -- Humane Orientation as a Dimension of Organizational Culture -- Humane Orientation as a Leadership Characteristic -- The Relationship Between Humane Orientation as a Societal Dimension and the Humane-Oriented Leadership Dimension -- Interpretation of HLMs Using Humane Orientation to Predict Culturally Endorsed Leadership -- Uncertainty Avoidance / Mary Sully de Luque, Mansour Javidan -- Concept of Uncertainty Avoidance -- Correlates of Uncertainty Avoidance -- GLOBE Research on Uncertainty Avoidance -- Comparison of GLOBE Findings with Previous Studies -- Economic and Social Correlates of GLOBE Uncertainty Avoidance -- Uncertainty Avoidance Regional Clusters -- GLOBE Findings on Organizational Uncertainty Avoidance -- Uncertainty Avoidance and Formalization -- Societal Culture and Industrial Sector Influences on Organizational Culture / Felix C. Brodbeck, Paul J. Hanges, Marcus W. Dickson, Vipin Gupta, Peter W. Dorfman -- Industry Sectors and Organizational Cultural Practices

Hypotheses -- Analysis -- Analyzing Industry-by-Society Interactions on Organizational Cultural Practices -- Comparing Effect Sizes: Society, Industry, and Society-by-Industry Interactions -- Leadership and Cultural Variation: The Identification of Culturally Endorsed Leadership Profiles / Peter W. Dorfman, Paul J. Hanges, Felix C. Brodbeck -- Implicit Leadership Theory: Conceptual Underpinnings -- The GLOBE Conceptual Model and CLT Hypotheses -- Managerial Implications -- Leadership CLT Scores for Societal Cultures -- Conclusions and Future Directions / Mansour Javidan, Robert J. House, Peter W. Dorfman, Vipin Gupta, Paul J. Hanges, Mary Sully de Luque -- Main Features of GLOBE's Theoretical Framework -- Main Features of GLOBE's Methodological Framework -- GLOBE's Major Empirical Contributions -- Future Directions -- Societal-Level Correlations Among GLOBE Societal Culture Scales / Paul J. Hanges.

This book reports the results of a ten year research program, the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness Research Program.