The Globe model

The Globe model

The Globe model focuses on the measurement and evaluation of global leadership and organizational behavior effectiveness. The seven-dimensional model also discusses the cultural aspects from a different perspective.

The Globe model mainly focuses on the factors that affect cross-cultural differences. Seven-dimensional models also verify the essence of different cultures for a better understanding. Both theories of a culture share a number of similar dimensions by focusing on the importance of beliefs and values as a driving factor. Both of these models are based on looking at managers of 50 different countries.

The Globe model takes findings of the Hofstede model of culture and expands it into consideration the role of leaders and managers in order to identify the traits that culturally specific versus traits that universally accepted. This model is more comprehensive, cross-culturally developed, and theoretically sound than Hofstede’s cross-cultural model. It defines cultures as a shared motive, values, identities, and beliefs that result from common experiences of employees in an organization, and it is transmitted across generations. Assertiveness, future orientation, performance orientation, and human orientation are the four aspects that added to Hofstede’s model.

On the other hand, a seven-dimensional model is based on sociology and five dimensions of Parsons. It also includes two other dimensions along with parsons five dimension model towards time and environment. According to this model, variation of cultures depend on approaches of the persons in organizations, and this problem is categorized into three parts which are attitudes with respect to the environment, the association among people and mindset concerning time.

However, the globe model is more accepted in the world than the seven dimensions model.