@article{article_332460, title={Leadership Styles, Organizational Culture and Knowledge Management Relationships}, journal={Kastamonu Education Journal}, volume={25}, pages={1301–1318}, year={2017}, author={Özgözgü, Serdal and Atılgan, Hakan}, keywords={Bilgi Yönetimi,Liderlik Stilleri,Örgüt Kültürü}, abstract={<p>Leadership behaviors of school principals in educational institutions would undoubtedly have an important role in a successful knowledge management. The purpose of the present study is to present the relationships among leadership, organizational culture and knowledge management in secondary schools based on teachers’ perceptions. The study was designed in the correlational survey design. The independent variables of the study are leadership styles and organizational culture; and the dependent variable is knowledge management. Simple random sampling method was used in the research. Data were collected from a total of 630 teachers working at secondary schools in the central districts of Balçova, Buca, Karabağlar and Konak in Izmir. The study found that the highest contribution to knowledge management was made by instrumental leadership in the organic culture while it was by participative leadership in the mechanistic culture. According to the partial correlations and the values of variance explained in the study; organic culture was observed to have a greater effect on knowledge management than mechanistic culture at schools.  <br> </p>}, number={4}, publisher={Kastamonu Üniversitesi}