SOUTHERN ASIA CLUSTER
The Southern Asia cluster in the GLOBE Research Program consisted of India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand. India is the only country from this cluster represented in this volume.
The Southern Asia cluster is among the high scores on Humane Orientation, and In-Group Collectivism. Its scores on Assertiveness, Future Orientation, Gender Egalitarianism, Institutional Collectivism, Performance Orientation, Power Distance, and Uncertainty Avoidance are in the midrange (House et al., 2004).
Charismatic/Value Based leadership and Team Oriented leadership are seen to be contributing the most to the outstanding leadership in this cluster. Participative leadership and Humane Oriented leadership are viewed positively. Autonomous leadership and Self-Protective leadership are reported to be neutral toward outstanding leadership in this cluster.
One of the distinct features of this cluster is the assimilation of foreign cultures, often those of the conquerors, with the result that people of widely different beliefs have coexisted peacefully in the countries of this cluster (Levi-Strauss, 1951). Peaceful coexistence of people of different religions, different ethnic groups, and so on, is thus, quite common in this cluster. Commenting on the existence of places of worship of different religions next to each other, Levi-Strauss has observed that “complementary forms of faith seem irreconcilable yet they co-exist peaceably.”
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.
Levi-Strauss, C. (1951). Foreword to documents on South Asia. International Social Science Bulletin, III(4).