THE ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON LEADERSHIP STYLES

Objectives: One of the most influential concepts in organizational behavior literature is also organizational culture. The concept of organizational culture has gained wide importance from past to today for business. Organizational culture helps business to understand human at organizational level. Divided into four dimensions, which are clan, adhocracy, market, hierarchy, organizational culture have shown to be associated with several organizational outcomes, including leadership style. Leadership can be defined as the ability of an individual or organization to "lead" or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations. There are several leadership styles in present literature. Paternalistic, transformational, transactional, ethical, servant and laissez-faire leadership styles are some of the leadership styles in the relevant literature and they have been used for this study. Within this framework, this study aims to specify the interrelationship between dimensions of organizational culture and different leadership styles