Project GLOBE for Scientists and Practitioners: Drawing Clarity from Controversy

Abstract

The Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness project (Project GLOBE) was initiated in the early 1990s with the goal of constructing a culturally universal model of implicit leadership—the ideas held by individuals about the characteristics of effective leaders—in the form of “culturally endorsed implicit leadership dimensions” (CLTs). GLOBE undertook two major projects, a dimensional project in which the perceived values and practices of those around them were assessed by middle level managers on 18 dimensions, and a leadership project in which six implicit leadership qualities were identified at the country level of analysis. Sophisticated sampling was employed that involved obtaining questionnaire data from over 17,000 middle-level managers across three industries in 62 countries as well as additional qualitative information from a subset of these countries.