Leadership Styles, Organizational Culture and Knowledge Management Relationships
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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.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Knowledge Management,Leadership Styles,Organizational Culture
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