Leadership styles and work-related values of managers and employees of manufacturing enterprises in post-communist countries
✍ Scribed by Alexander Ardichvili
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 141 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1044-8004
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
This survey‐based study used the theoretical framework of full‐range leadership developed by Bass
and Avolio, the cultural value framework of Hofstede, and two additional cultural value dimensions—fatalism
and paternalism—to compare leadership styles and work‐related cultural values of more than 2,900
managers and employees in nine manufacturing firms in Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgystan. Significant
differences among the four countries existed on several dimensions of cultural value and leadership style, as well
as in cultural values between managers and nonmanagerial employees. This is one of the first studies to address
cultural value dimensions in Georgia, Kazakhstan, and the Kyrgyz Republic; the author draws inferences about
the relationship between culture and leadership and discusses implications of this relationship for HRD practices
in the former USSR. The author presents implications for Western HRD practitioners working with managers and
employees from the former USSR.