Culture and Leadership: A Connectionist Information Processing Model

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss a new information processing model of culture and leadership (Hanges, Lord, & Dickson, 2000). First, we review the older cognitive categorization approach that has been used to explain the relationships between culture, preferred leadership attributes and follower behavior. Then we present a new model based on the connectionist theory of information processing. This model focuses on the connections between concepts in a cognitive network, rather than discrete schemas. Finally, we use the new model to suggest strategies that managers might use to manage a diverse workforce.

Citation

Hanges, P.J., Dorfman, P.W., Shteynberg, G. and Bates, A.L. (2005), "Culture and Leadership: A Connectionist Information Processing Model", Mobley, W.H. and Weldon, E. (Ed.) Advances in Global Leadership (Advances in Global Leadership, Vol. 4), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 7-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1535-1203(06)04004-4