The Impact of Social Factors on the Cultural Tendencies and Leadership Preferences: The Moderating Role of Organizational Culture

This study aims to examine the relationship between individuals' leadership preferences and social factors in organizations, considering the moderating effect of organizational culture. Data was collected through 242 questionnaires from production companies in the Organized Industrial Zones of Istanbul. When the findings are generally evaluated, it was concluded that individuals' social factors directly affect both their leadership preferences and cultural tendencies at individualism and collectivism dimensions. It was found that the authoritarian dimension of the social factor positively influenced collectivist cultural tendencies and paternalistic leadership preferences, while the democracy dimension of the social factor positively influenced both individualistic and collectivist cultural tendencies, democratic leadership preferences and servant leadership. In addition, it was found that the perception of organizational culture did not affect social factors and individualism or collectivism cultural dimensions but had a direct positive effect on leadership preferences.