Global Leadership & Organisational Behaviour Effectiveness Flashcards
What is GLOBE?
Global Leadership & Organisational Behaviour Effectiveness
What is GLOBE’s goal?
In what way are cultural values connected to organisational practices, leadership, economic competitiveness of societies and the human conditions of its members.
What is GLOBE’s focus?
GLOBE’s focus is on societies and not countries.
What are GLOBE’s Dimensions?
- Uncertainty avoidance
- Power distance
- Institutional collectivism
- In-group collectivism
- Gender egalitarianism
- Assertiveness
- Future orientation
- Performance orientation
- Humane orientation
What is Uncertainty Avoidance?
The extent to which members of an organisation or society strive to avoid uncertainty by relying on social norms, rituals, and bureaucratic practices to decrease the unpredictability of future events that could affect the operations in a negative way.
- Based on Hofstede.
Which countries focus on uncertainty avoidance?
Singapore and Switzerland
What is Power Distance?
The degree to which members of an organisation or society expect and agree that power should be stratified and concentrated at the higher levels of an organisation or government.
- Based on Hofstede
Which countries have higher power distance?
Brazil and Thailand
What is Institutional Collectivism?
The degree to which organizational and societal institutions encourage and reward collective distribution of resources and collective action.
- Based on Hofstede
Which countries focus on institutional collectivism?
Japan and Sweden
What is In-Group Collectivism?
The degree to which individuals express pride, loyalty, and cohesiveness in their organizations or families.
- Based on Hofstede
Which countries focus on in-group collectivism?
India and China
What is Gender Egalitarianism?
The degree to which a collective minimizes gender inequality.
- Based on Hofstede
What is Assertiveness?
The degree to which individuals are assertive, confrontational and aggressive in their relationships with others.
- Based on Hofstede
Which countries focus on gender egalitarianism
Denmark, Hungary, Sweden.
Which countries focus on assertiveness?
Hong Kong and the United States
What is Future Orientation?
The extent to which organisations and societies engage in future-oriented behavior such as planning, investing in the future, and delaying individual or collective gratification.
- Based on Kluckhohn’s Past-Present-Future orientation.
Which countries focus on future orientation?
Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland
What is Performance Orientation?
The extent to which an organisation or society encourages and rewards group members’ performance improvement and excellence.
- Based on the Need-to-Achieve studies by McClleland.
Which countries focus on performance orientation?
Hong Kong and the United States
What is Humane Orientation?
The degree to which a collective encourages and rewards individuals for being fair, altruistic, generous, caring and kind to others.
- Based on Kluckhohn’s assumption that human nature is basically good or evil.
GLOBE Measures each dimension in two ways:
- As it is (how you put it into practice)
- As should be (how high you value the dimension)
What are GLOBE’s leadership clusters?
- Middle East
- Confucian Asia
- Southern Asia
- Latin America
- Nordic Europe
- Anglo
- Germanic Europe
- Latin Europe
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Eastern Europe
Which countries are in the Middle East cluster?
Egypt, Kuwait, Morocco, Qatar, Turkey
