ABSTRACT
National culture seems to act as a strong determinant of managerial ideology. The objective of the research thus became to assess and identify some of the national differences in concepts of management. The 56-item Management Questionnaire was systematically administered to groups of upper-middle-level managers attending the various INSEAD executive development programs between 1977 and 1979. The managers came from a large number of different enterprises and from a variety of Western countries. The dimension “organizations as political systems” clusters three items dealing, respectively, with the political role played by managers in society, their perception of power motivation within the organization, and an assessment of the degree to which organizational structures are clearly defined in the minds of the individuals involved. Neighboring Western nations seem to be forming fairly differentiated images of organizations and their management.
