The Effect of Leadership Types on Organizational Performance and the Mediating Role of Management Style

The aim of the study is to determine the impact of leadership types on the organizational performance and the mediating role of the management style in this effect. In order to complete the study, questionnaires applied to thermal hotel managers in Afyonkarahisar. The Bass & Avolio Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), 34 questions, was used to determine the leadership styles. In order to measure organizational performance, 15 questions, from Kaplan and Norton's Balanced Scorecard measurement technique, and the management style; traditional or modern, 8 questions were used in the study. In the survey, 166 healthy data were obtained from 250 questionnaires applied to hotel managers operating in Afyonkarahisar. Data is processed by AMOS 19 and a Structural Equation Model evaluated which has been represented the structural relationships.