Impacts of Organizational Culture on Leadership Styles

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Impacts of Organizational Culture on Leadership Styles by Yasser Abdolghader Abstract Introduction: Personal and national cultures deduce from peoples’ personal values and penetrate the role of effective managerial leadership and successful firms’ performances. There should be a relationship between leadership styles and organizational cultures. Are leadership styles culturally-related? Purpose: Purpose of this article is to evaluate the basics that form understanding of leadership. This paper tries to explore which styles of leadership are realized in different cultures by sketching the relationship between culture and leadership. Methodology: The study will identify whether cultural background expedites the revelation of various leadership styles. Secondary data is the main source of his article. Results of a survey that had been conducted between two groups of middle managers from two separated cultural background will be used. Also a survey will conduct between ILG employees in Iran on the basis of MLQ. Results: Transactional leadership is straightened with the ratings of respondents from Iran and Malaysia powerfully. In contrary, Australian respondents mutually related to transformational leadership. These results encourage other research findings that suggested a direct influence of culture on leadership styles. Discussion/Conclusion: Survey explored considerable differences between leadership styles and cultural backgrounds. It suggests that participants view leadership in different perspectives. On the basis of findings, this study suggests that comprehension on leadership approach is different from one culture to another. Keywords: Leadership Styles, Transformational, Transactional, Organizational culture, MLQ INTRODUCTION Nowadays, most of the

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