Performance Orientation

The following dimensions emerged from the GLOBE research:

1. Performance Orientation

It reflects the extent to which a community encourages and rewards innovation, high standards, excellence, and performance improvement (Grove, 2005).

HIGH PERFORMANCE ORIENTATION societies have characteristics such as...

  • Value training and development.
  • Value competitiveness and materialism.
  • View formal feedback as necessary for performance improvement.
  • Value what one does more than who one is.
  • Expect direct, explicit communication.

LOW PERFORMANCE ORIENTATION societies have characteristics such as...

  • Value societal and family relationships.
  • Value harmony with the environment.
  • View formal feedback as judgmental and discomfiting.
  • Value who one is more than what one does.
  • Expect indirect, subtle communication.

Source for this text: Cornelius N. Grove (2005). Introduction to the GLOBE Research Project on Leadership Worldwide. http://www.grovewell.com/pub-GLOBE-intro.html

Cornelius N. Grove (2005). Worldwide Differences in Business Values and Practices: Overview of GLOBE Research Findings. http://www.grovewell.com/pub-GLOBE-dimensions.html

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Please read more about Performance Orientation and Application to Leadership from the article: Cornelius N. Grove (2005). Worldwide Differences in Business Values and Practices: Overview of GLOBE Research Findings. http://www.grovewell.com/pub-GLOBE-dimensions.html. Make notes to your course diary.

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Sirje Virkus, Tallinn University, 2009