Culture and leadership in Iran: The land of individual achievers, strong family ties, and powerful elite

摘要: Over the past twenty-five years, Iran, a country of over 60 million people, has endured bewildering rate societal and economic change. Little is currently known about besides its extremist confrontational policies both inside outside country. In this article, we report on study 300 Iranian middle managers from banking, telecommunications, food-processing industries as part GLOBE Project. Our findings show that despite much visible change, country's deeper cultural traits seem rather intact. The first important finding while Middle Eastern country, not Arab culture. Instead, it South Asian cluster consisting such countries India, Thailand, Malaysia. culture distinguished by seemingly paradoxical mix strong family ties connections high degree individualism. Societal or institutional collectivism suit Iranians. ...