Understanding the Management and Leadership Culture of the Innovative Automotive Companies

Abstract

Management and leadership styles and approaches have always been important for business and management literature. The dominance of management and leadership on companies’ success or failure has been highlighted and investigated by important amount of studies in existing literature. This study investigates the management and leadership culture type of sample innovative companies from automotive industry by applying ‘competing values framework assessment’ . This study also identifies the culture types of other dimensions of organizational culture and provides a consolidated view. The results demonstrated the dominance of market culture which fosters competition among the members of the organization and success oriented. On the other hand, hierarchy culture has considerable existence in the ‘management of employees’ dimension of the organizational culture. All four culture types’ existence levels are also represented in the study for all dimensions of organizational culture.