The relationship of leadership and organizational culture on performance has been
empirically proven (Eppard, 2004), determining that the combination of transformational
leadership and constructive culture yields in positive job performance, while on the
contrary, transactional leadership and defensive culture has negative outcome. Given that
both leadership and culture are constructs with differentiated variables (Bass & Avolio,
1993; Cooke & Szumal, 2000), different combinations of leadership style and
organizational culture, could result in various outcome scenarios. Previous scholar findings
about leadership and culture frameworks are abundant in developed economies, not so
much in emerging regions such as Latin America, the latter with increasing importance in
the worldwide economy. Particularly multilatinas, face the challenge of short term
economic hurdles, outstanding therefore the importance of improving knowledge of
leadership and organizational culture as key drivers for sustained growth and evolution.
The objective for the proposed research was to identify the relationship between leadership
style, organizational culture, and organizational effectiveness, in Latin American
transnational corporations, or as so called, multilatinas. Surveys were implemented in three
large multilatinas located in Central America and Andean region, in the retail, construction
and food industries. Findings of the research pointed that the constructive culture was the
most relevant variable in the development of higher attainment of organizational
effectiveness, even beyond the transformational leadership. The Latin American multilatina
leader was valued due to the heroic-ethic transformational profile in conjunction with the
contingent reward transactional one. The ambiguity from followers appreciating a heroic
leader, but at the same time demanding detailed direction from leaders, thus avoiding own
responsibility, posed the need for future research for collective-empowering leadership rather
than an individual one
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PUCP/oai:tesis.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.12404/12440 |
| Date | 09 August 2018 |
| Creators | Alvarez Echavarría, Ana Claudia |
| Contributors | D’Alessio Ipinza, Fernando Antonio |
| Publisher | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PE |
| Source Sets | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/pe/ |
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