Taking a contingency perspective, we see that executive styles in different regions of the globe are partly a result of the history and institutional arrangements from which they emerged. For example, the Chinese possess the longest continuous civilization in the world. Human relationships there have a subtlety and depth of definition that are unknown elsewhere. Western leaders in some countries exhibit specific traits to a greater degree than in others. For example, emotionalism is more common in American leaders than elsewhere. Germans typically see American emotionalism as a sort of business demagogy and are very suspicious of it. There are a number of components of executive style that can be identified. We have selected a few(depicted in Table 4.1) to illustrate the point that style can vary on a number of dimensions around the globe.