Identifying leadership comprehension of the managers having different cultures depending on their personelity features: Comparative analyses of Turkish American hotel managers

Nowadays the fast and sustainable changes, take place in almost every area (suchas technological, economical and political), lead to a requirement for the development ofmodern and effective managerial approaches. Every managers, in either public or privatesector, need to use their resources, especially human resources, more effectively in orderto achieve their aims. Because of this managers need to be good leaders.Research findings show that ?personality? is one of the important factors, whichenables managers to use ?human resources? -the most important asset of theorganizations- efficiently and effectively. Nowadays all formations in organization systemlike culture, motivation, leadership style, etc has a direct relation with personality relatingto increase research findings, in different scales (different cultures) and different fields oforganization managers start to benefit effective from the fact of ?personality?.Because of these reasons, in this study, ?personality?, the relation betweenpersonality and culture? and ?the role of personality on management? were examined and?SHL_OPQ/Occupational Personality Questionnaire? was applied in five star hotelsoperating in Antalya/Turkey and Florida Key/USA. The findings were explainedcomparative and from these results differences and similarities were found betweencultures.