Toward a linkage between leadership competencies, paternalistic leadership styles and cultural assumptions on leader-member exchange perceptions of managers/Yöneticilerin bireysel yetkinliklerinin liderlik tarzları ve lider üye etkileşimine verdikleri önem üzerindeki etkileri ve bu etkileşimde kültürel varsayımların rolü
Tez Türü: Doktora
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Marmara Üniversitesi, İktisadi Ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, İngilizce İşletme Bölümü, Türkiye
Tez Danışmanı: Havva İnci Artan
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2009
Özet:
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of personality variables and
individual skills on paternalistic leadership styles and manager’s leader-member
exchange expectations. The individual variables are leadership motivation (LM),
political skill, core self evaluations (CSE) and need for power (Npow). The
contingency effect of cultural assumptions (namely power distance and masculinity and
femininty) is also taken into consideration in the occurence of paternalistic leadership
styles (moral, benevolent and authoritarion leadership).
In the 21.century, “social capital” of the managers and leaders gain a crucial
importance in order to reach personal and organizational goals and strategies. The
expectancy of a qualified leader-member exchange is an important social capital for
today’s managers since it has important influence on job satisfaction, organizational
commitment, performance, team work and intention to turnover behaviors of the
employees. Within this context, it is assumed that individual level skills (LM, Npow,
political skill and CSE) will explain the leadership style and leadership style will have
an influence on LMX perception of the managers. So we can state that the oldest trait
theory of leadership has to be revised and it is still valid in the occurence of leadership
occurence and leadership behavior. The research data of this is study is collected from
4 main sector: tourism&hotel management sector, SMEs, multinationals and education
sector. 455 managers from these sectors participated to the questionaires. The statistical
analysis conducted with SPSS statistical package confirmed the importance of
individual level varibles on the leadership behavior occurence. Political skill (apperant
sincerity, social influence, networking and social astuteness) has explanatory power on
“benevolent paternalistic” and “moral(contributing to personal growth style)” ; noncalculative leadership motivation and core self evaluations has explanatory power on
authoritarian leadership style and Npow has an explanatory power on protective
leadership style. Masculinity and femininy and power distance increases the
explanatory power of individual skills on paternalistic leadership style which means
that cultural assumptions have contingency affect on leadership occurence. Paternalistic
leadership with its sub-components totally has a powerfull explanatory power on LMX
perception of the leaders. In other words positive LMX perception is embedded in
paternalistic leadership styles.