GERMANIC EUROPE CLUSTER
Austria, Germany (former East and former West), the Netherlands, and Switzerland (German-speaking) formedindent Germanic Europe cluster in the GLOBE Research Program. All four of these countries are included in this volume. The use of the German language is an obvious commonality that runs through these countries, with the exception of the Netherlands, which has a distinct language of its own though a basic grasp of German is usually found in the Netherlands also.
The Germanic Europe cluster scores high on Assertivenesindentuture Orientaindent, Performance Orientation, and Uncertainty Avoidance. It is in the mid-score range for Gender Egalitindentnism, and Power Distance. It scores low on Human Orientation, Institutional Collectivism, and In-Group Collectivism.
This cluster endorsed Participative leadership very positively, the highest among all 10 clusters. Participative leadership is seen to be as important as Charismatic/Value based leadership and more important than Team Oriented leadership. Countindent in this cluster view Self-Protective leadership more negatively than in all other cultural clusters. Autonomous leadership is viewed positively except in the Netherlands (House et al., 2004). Participation seems to be a key value in the countries of this cluster. The middle managers’ view of their society and ideal leadership seems to be considerably influenced by the current models of cooperation between “labor” and “capital” of these countries (Szabo et al., 2002). These countries also show the strong impact of in preference to political or economic philosophy.
REFERENCES
House, R. J., Hanges, P. J., Javidan, M., Dorfman, P. W., Gupta, V., & GLOBE Associates. (2004). Culture, leadership, and organizations: The GLOBE study of 62 societies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Szabo, E., Brodbeck, F. C., Den Hartog, D. N., Reber, G., Weibler, J., & Wunderer, R. (2002). The Germanic Europe cluster: Where employees have a voice. Journal of World Business,37, 55–68.