How leadership can influence organisational culture (PDF)

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 2,0, University of applied sciences, Munich, language: English, abstract: This assignment provides the reader with a descriptive analysis of organizational culture, including a comparative analysis of the most common leadership styles, to identify the influence of leadership on corporate culture. Empirical studies including Geert Hofstede, Edgar Schein and Bernard Bass were used to identify similarities between a leadership style and contribution they have on organizational culture. Leaders have to know the companies' core values, including employee's practices and assumptions about their work. When these strong principles, behaviours and beliefs are communicated and developed, a strong organizational culture will emerge. The core values can be visuals like a dress code, or the subordinates beliefs and expectations, which have to be communicated and aligned by the leader. These results are backed up with a recent study of leadership in a hospital, were wellcommunicated core values and support increased job satisfaction and overall performance. A leader has to implement a companies objectives and values to build a corporate culture, depending on the cultural background the company operates in, it is important to choose the appropriate leadership style to bring across these values. A study identified that individualists, according to Hofstedes model, generated more ideas with a transactional leader, emphasising the fact that leaders should not change a corporate culture but only develop and strengthen it upon all subordinates.