How Management Styles Predicts School Culture - A regression analysis study

Oct 15, 2026

This research examines how principals’ management styles relate to organizational culture in elementary schools. A relational survey model was used with 6058 public-school teachers as the population and 388 teachers selected via cluster sampling in Gaziantep during 2018-2019. Management style was measured with the “Perceived Manager Management Style Scale” and organizational culture with the “Organizational Culture Scale”. Findings indicate collaborative management is most evident and authoritarian, resistant, and indifferent styles are not dominant, with culture dimensions differing by level and significant predictive relationships.

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Abstract

Introduction

Definitions of management and management style

Organizational culture and its link to managerial behavior

Management

Evolution of management as a discipline

Definitions by authors

Background and historical development

How Management Styles Predicts School Culture: A regression analysis study* Mustafa ERDEM1 Kırşehir Ahi Evran University Cem AKIN2 Kırşehir Ahi Evran University Abstract The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between management styles and organizational culture in elementary schools. Relational survey model as a quantitative research methodology was employed in the study. The research population consists of 6058 school teachers working in public schools in Şahinbey and Şehitkâmil districts of Gaziantep in the academic year 2018-2019. The sample consists of 388 teachers determined by cluster sampling. The "Perceived Manager Management Style Scale" was used to measure management style, and the "Organizational Culture Scale" was used to measure organizational culture. As a result, it is found that school principals exhibit a collaborative management style and managers do not have authoritarian, resistant and indifferent management styles. Although supportive culture and success culture in schools were determined as dominant cultures, role and power culture was also in moderate levels. The views of male and female teachers about the sub-dimensions of administration style and organizational culture did not show significant difference yet, there are significant low and medium level relationships between management style sub-dimensions and organizational culture. Management style subdimensions are a significant predictor of organizational culture. Authoritarian management style had the highest correlation with power culture. Except for resistant management style, a significant relationship was found between management styles and success culture. Collaborative management style had the highest relationship with the culture of success. Collaborative management style had the highest relationship for management styles and support culture. One unit of change in the collaborativemanagement style predicted.51 units of change in the support culture. Keywords: Management styles, Organizational culture, Predictive level. DOI: 10.29329/epasr.2022.461.10 *This study is an extended form of an oral presentation from the 14th International Education Management Congress held in Çeşme in May 2019. 1 Associate Professor (Doç . Dr.), Education Faculty, Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Kırşehir, Türkiye, Orcid no: 0000-0001-8595-0504, E[mail:merdem50@gmail.com](mail:merdem50@gmail.com) 2 PhD student, Institute of Social Sciences, Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Kırşehir, Türkiye, Orcid no: 0000-0001-7321-7516, E[mail:cemakin27@gmail.com](mail:cemakin27@gmail.com) Introduction With many different definitions in the literature, management is generally represented as the process of guiding human and financial resources in a productive way in line with an aim. Management is a case as old as the history of humanity and the differentiation of leaders and managing people can be traced from early periods to the present day. Stages of social life based on forms of production like the transition to settled life, agricultural societies, industrial societies, and scientific and technological developments have ensured the development of management as an academic discipline and led to great changes in the theoretical basis of the organization concept. Variables like organizational structure, areas of activity, features of employees, and forms of understanding of managers emerge in different management practices and are called ‘management style’. Different management styles form a topic of academic studies from this aspect. Organizational culture may be defined as all the values and norms shared by members of an organization. Managers may change the traditions, rules and values of the organization they manage with the managerial behavior they display. In this sense, the management styles displayed by managers can be said to affect the culture of the organization. Management Generally, a scientific branch investigating

FAQs

What is the main purpose of the study?

To determine the relationship between management styles and organizational culture in elementary schools.

How were management style and organizational culture measured?

Management style was measured using the “Perceived Manager Management Style Scale,” and organizational culture was measured using the “Organizational Culture Scale”.

What sampling and research model were used?

A relational survey model was applied. Cluster sampling selected 388 teachers from a population of 6058 public-school teachers in Gaziantep for 2018-2019.

Oct 15, 2026

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