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Abstract
What is the connection between leaders' morality and the output performance
of organizations? Can their morality explain, through trust, continuity and
change of organizational cultures? These questions are fraught with so many
complexities that· they can be untied only by Simon's (1992) proposal that
organizational research should be analogous to zoology where an attempt is
made to understand animals by a profound investigation of their immense
variation. However, in the case of humans such investigation depends also on
the finding of the right vantage point for proper interpretation of the criss-cross
tapestry of cultures (Geertz, 1973), which makes a very complex organization.
By studying this tapestry in the case of the kibbutz system a new picture is
exposed than that portrayed by customary kibbutz research approach. It enables
the explanation of both how most kibbutzim remained adaptive and creative
for some six decades, and why have they lost creativity almost of a sudden,
recently. A preliminary idea for preventing that process, based on leaders'
continuation in office being conditional on growing trust, is herein presented.