Leaders are directive, goal-directed, and encourage productivity. Much of the communication deals with planing, productivity, and efficiency. Management, by objectives, is a typical approach to direct behavior. Leaders are conservative, cautious, and focus on maintaining organizational structure. Decisions are made slowly and documented.
Leaders are participative and supportive while facilitating interaction.
Decisions are made slowly and include involvement with members of the organization. The next figure details the eight factors that bisect the quadrants. These factors highlight the prominent characteristics of the organization s cultures that are found within each of these areas. They are competitors within the same segment of the industry and are commonly thought to represent different cultures. Typically, an organization s culture is studied by working on the inside, i.e., studying founding documents, interviewing the founders, and surveying present employees.