Organizational Leadership and Culture in Bulgaria

Abstract

The analysis of the culture-leadership relationship is guided by two research tasks, first, testing the instrumentality of the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) methodology in cross-cultural and leadership studies, and second, shedding light on the country that was not included in the original GLOBE research, namely Bulgaria, with its distinctive culture and perceived effective leadership. Based on the surveys of 253 managers, the authors create the profile of a societal culture and the profile of organizational leadership perceived as effective in Bulgaria and compare the empirically derived results with the theoretical predictors of effective leadership in this country. They partially confirmed the hypothesis that culture is predictive of effective organizational leadership and contributed to the empirical analysis of societal behaviors and values in Bulgaria.