Culture is learned behavior — it’s not a by-product of operations. The answer lies with culture.

reports the findings of the first two phases of GLOBE.

Praise for Prior Editions of Organizational Culture and Leadership "Worth reading again and again and again." The book is primarily based on the results of the survey of over 17,000 middle managers in three industries: banking, food processing, and telecommunications, as well as archival measures of country economic prosperity and the physical and psychological well-being of the cultures studied. Leadership, Culture, and Organizations. —Knowledge Management "[Schein] is, to use an overworked word, a guru, the recognized expert in the field." In the specific area of culture and leadership,the studies by House et al.

So, does leadership create a culture or does culture create a leadership? The entire purpose of leadership is to create a culture. The answer to both questions is yes.

READ: Improving Culture Through Leadership. Transformational leadership and organizational culture are two must-have keys for executing and managing successful change in an organization. (2004) offer the strongest body of findings to date, published in the 800-page Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies.These studies are called the GLOBE studies, named for the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness research program. Organizational Culture and Leadership is the classic reference for managers and students seeking a deeper understanding of the inter-relationship of organizational culture dynamics and leadership. An organizational culture tends to emerge over time, shaped by the organization's leadership and by actions and values perceived to have contributed to earlier successes. In a large and well-established organization it can be difficult for an outsider to implement a new culture. For me, an organizational culture is defined by how people inside the organization interact with each other. Organizations are the product of organizational culture; we are unaware of how it shapes behavior and interaction (also implicit in Schein's (2002) underlying assumptions [clarification needed]), which undermines attempts to categorize and define organizational culture. —Booklist "An organizational development pioneer uses an anthropological approach to address a leader's role in shaping group and organizational dynamics."