The role of the quality of management in the impact of democratic and autocratic leadership styles on integrated development

In his doctoral thesis the relationship between democratic and autocratic leadership styles, the concept of integrated development, which includes economic and social development, and the concepts of quality of management are examined. This study aims to find the effect of democratic and autocratic leadership styles on integrated development and also the mediation effect of quality of management. The research was conducted with 530 people aged 18 and over living in the province of Istanbul and the research data were collected by face-to-face survey method. The questionnaire includes Likert's scales of Democratic Leadership and Autocratic Leadership, Economic Development, Social Development and Quality of Management. SPSS program was used for the reliability analysis of the questionnaire. The analysis was completed by transferring the study data to the IBM SPSS Statistics 25 program. While analyzing the data, frequency distributions for categorical variables and descriptive statistics (mean±sd) for numerical variables were used. Kolmogorov Smirnov normality test was applied to the scale scores in order to decide on the analyzes to be applied. As a result of the Kolmogorov Smirnov normality test, it was seen that the scores met the assumption of normality; correlation, explanatory factor and regression analyzes were used to test the hypotheses. As a result of the study it has been concluded that the democratic leadership style has a positive effect on economic and social development; therefore on integrated development and the quality of management is mediated. It has been determined that the autocratic leadership style has no effect on economic and social development, and therefore on integrated development, so the intermediary effect of the quality of management could not be measured. Key Words: Democratic Leadership, Autocratic Leadership, Economic Development, Social Development, Integrated Development, Quality of Management