UNDERSTANDING THE MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP CULTURE OF THE INNOVATIVE AUTOMOTIVE COMPANIES
Abstract
Management and leadership styles and approaches
have always been important for business and management literature. The
dominance of management and leadership on companies’ success or failure has
been highlighted and investigated by important amount of studies in existing
literature. This study investigates the management and leadership culture type
of sample innovative companies from automotive industry by applying ‘competing
values framework assessment’ . This study also identifies the culture types of
other dimensions of organizational culture and provides a consolidated view. The
results demonstrated the dominance of market culture which fosters competition
among the members of the organization and success oriented. On the other hand,
hierarchy culture has considerable existence in the ‘management of employees’
dimension of the organizational culture. All four culture types’ existence
levels are also represented in the study for all dimensions of organizational
culture.
Keywords
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Finance
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Kağan Okatan
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0000-0002-0517-665X
Türkiye
Publication Date
March 1, 2020
Submission Date
June 12, 2019
Acceptance Date
February 2, 2020
Published in Issue
Year 2020 Volume: 18 Number: 1