Too many companies continue to rely on rigid, archaic management models. Recent analysis from Gallup shows that six elements can help drive a company’s transformation to a high-performance culture.

Business growth in the Arab Gulf offers a good example. In recent years, the Corporation Council for the Arab States in the Gulf, also known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), has seen an ever-expanding footprint from companies around the world—a result of the inherent demand and growing mobility of the marketplace and the economic slowdown in North America and Europe. To investigate how managers create high-performance cultures in the GCC region, Gallup studied 3,477 managers from companies in the oil and gas, banking and finance, property development, tourism, automotive, and telecommunications sectors.

The results show that the best managers in the GCC region create high-performance cultures by setting clear expectations, defining employees’ roles, creating a trusting environment, and encouraging employees’ growth and development. And, they continuously raise the bar by encouraging higher performance from themselves and from their teams.

 …