Organizational Cultures Affect on Leadership Styles

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Organizational Cultures Affect on Leadership Styles XXXXXX XXXXXXXXX LDR 550: Leadership and Team Development November 27, 2012 Organizational Cultures Affect on Leadership Styles Introduction Have you ever experienced going from one employer to another doing the same job, and have a totally different working environment? What you could be experiencing is a change in organizational culture and its affect on leadership styles. Organizational culture is defined as how things are done. It can be seen in the organization's beliefs and values. The culture of an organization develops over time, and is based upon the success and failures of its leaders (Lussier & Achua, 2012). Cultural leadership is a reflection of behaviors that have been shaped by expressive behaviors and cultural ideologies and their effect on leadership. To maintain a culture, leadership must sustain cultural continuity by embracing the organization's values, norms and ideologies. There are several factors that determine how the organization's culture changes or develops over time. Contributing factors like the type of the organization, its size, experience, and how consistent the culture is with its leadership behavior, do have an effect on its development (Valentine, 2011). This paper will attempt to explain how leadership styles and organizational cultures are connected, and what role leadership must take to maintain it. Does the culture shape the leader or does the leadership shape organizational culture? Comprehensive review of the scholarly literature Most organizations have a set of values. It is the degree in which those values live that determine whether they become a part of its culture. According to Ray and Goppelt (2011), there are many leadership programs that are designed to develop a leader's values, skills and abilities. Measuring and understanding the
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