Exam 16: Culture and Leadership

People in the Confucian Asia GLOBE cluster exhibit results-driven orientation and encourage the group to working together over individual goal achievement. People in this cultural cluster exhibited high scores in which cultural dimensions?

The GLOBE research program

How many "country clusters" did GLOBE focus its findings on?

The largely fixed attitude, belief, or emotion held by an individual about another individual or group based on faulty or unsubstantiated data is the definition of

Jenny is the project manager of a small web design firm. She identifies with Christian and American cultures. Working alone, Jenny created the work flow calendar for the next six month, carefully including days off for Easter and the Fourth of July. Rajiv, one of the firm's new designers who practices Islam, was disappointed to see that Jenny scheduled a huge project in late June during one of his important cultural holidays, Ramadan. When Jenny was designing the work calendar, she was using

My leader is only worried about his job and getting the next prestigious promotion. He does not care about me or my co-workers. Which of the global leadership behaviors am I using?

Training and development programs using the cultural behaviors, dimensions, and clusters from the GLOBE studies could focus on all except which of the following topics to help leaders be more effective in working with others from different cultures?

Applications for culture and leadership do not include

What was an element that GLOBE used to create regional clusters?

How does the GLOBE research inform leaders and followers about the different ways in which the various cultural clusters view leadership?

Which scholar reported that a primary characteristic of culture is the degree to which the culture is individualistic or collectivistic?

Implicit leadership theory states in part that individuals have implicit beliefs and convictions about the attributes that distinguish leaders from nonleaders. This concept is similar to the main concept of which leadership approach in the text?

Prejudice is other-oriented rather than self-oriented.

A criticism of the GLOBE research study, cited in the text, is

"Men just seem to be naturally better at math than women; that's just a fact!" This statement is an example of

Robert House, the lead researcher in the GLOBE study project is the same House that developed the Charismatic Transformational leadership theory.

I am really lucky to belong to an organization that places an emphasis on rewarding us for meeting challenging goals. My organization in this example is using which cultural dimension from the GLOBE studies?

What was the main purpose of the GLOBE project?

Ethnocentrism can be a major obstacle to effective leadership.

Switzerland is often cited as having high degrees of which cultural dimension from the GLOBE studies?