Organizational Leadership Style

The Impact of Leadership Styles on the Organizational Culture

ABSTRACT: This research examines the influence of leadership styles on the organizational culture. The questionnaires are applied by stratified sampling method to the workers (N=156) of the factory, which operates in the production sector and IBM SPSS 23 program is used for analyzing the data. After explaining the theoretical information about leadership and organizational culture, findings of the research were given. Finally, the findings are discussed, ending with the conclusion. The research reveals that the charismatic leadership style was the utmost influential leadership style in the organizational culture and the transactional leadership style did not have any influence

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
2.1 Leadership Approaches and Leadership Styles Leadership, in the modern sense, is a concept that has existed since people began to live together. V.J Bentz, studying the literature of leadership until 1949, stated that the leadership was defined in 130 different ways (Bass, 1965) 4. At the end of the 20th century, this number exceeded 350. As there are current researches on leadership (for example, Asamani et. al., 20165; Guluta & Rusu, 20166), we may predict that the number of definitions will be increased.
Rost (1991) 7 identified the leadership as the capability to direct the followers towards the defined purposes, while Ke & Wei (2007) 8 defines as the integrity of the needed capability, knowledge and equipment, and Burns (1978) 9 defines as the ability to resolve interpersonal and organizational problems. Thus, the leadership may be defined as the process of influence between a leader and those who are followers, toward the attainment of some goal. In this process, the leader is the one who can lead others' acts in accordance with his / her wishes and who can make influence the activities of the people (Cook et. al., 1997) 10.

2.1.1. Leadership

The influence of the leader is based on the communication style with his/her followers and his/her capability of prediction, control, and planning.
The behavioral approach has been criticized since it ignores the environment and the conditions, although it contributed significantly to the understanding of the leadership process. The biggest weakness is that the role of situational factors in determining the leader's effectiveness is ignored (Mullins, 1999) The biggest weakness is that the role of situational factors in determining the leader's effectiveness is ignored (Mullins, 1999).12
The weaknesses of the traits approach and behavioral approach and the critics lead to the creation of situational approach, which argues that the behavior of the leader depends on the circumstances and conditions (Ogbonna & Harris, 2000)2, thus there is not only one type of leadership adaptable to every circumstance and condition. The situational approach prioritizes the importance of the conditions and examining which type of leadership would adapt to the given