In spite of increasing intersts on organizational culture since 1980, there are relatively few studies on the relationships between organizational culture and leadership. Most of existed researches place emphases on how the leader in an organization d...
In spite of increasing intersts on organizational culture since 1980, there are relatively few studies on the relationships between organizational culture and leadership. Most of existed researches place emphases on how the leader in an organization determines and changes the culture. However, the organization culture as the shared value and belief of organization members influences and restricts the leadership. So the leaderships fitted in the organization culture are demanded. If the leadership unfitted in the organization culture will affect negatively on the behavioral effectiveness. This study is an exploative research for finding whether the organizational culture is an important factor affecting the leadership. So this study, based on the contingency theory, finds out congruence between organizational culture and leadership, and examines fitness of organizational culture and leadership to behavioral effectiveness by using above congruence. For this purpose, this study has set up a model and hypotheses on the organizational culture, leadership, and behavioral effectiveness. After examining hypotheses, this study has founded that specipic types of organizational culture are significantly related with specipic types of leadership, so there is a congruence between types of organizational culture and leadership. Also, the organization with fitted types of organizational culture and leadership is higher than those with unfitted ones in organizational involvement and job satisfaction. Thus, this study has suggested that there needs the leadership for fitting organizational culture, and this fitness improves behavioral effectiveness in corporates.