The impact of organizational culture on managers decision making process

Executive decisions are of paramount importance for the success of organizations in today's competitive environment. Decision process of the executives and the results of the decisions are closely related with all of institutions' shareholders. There are many factors that influence the executives' decision-making process. One of them is organizational culture that is assessed in organizational factors. In general, organization culture which is defined as a values system that is shared by members of the organization lead employees' behavior and guide them. This study aims to examine the impact of organization culture on the executive decision-making process. In the scope of study, the survey is arranged on 119 medium and senior executives of companies operating in different sectors in different provinces of Turkey. Survey results were analyzed with SPSS 22.0 software. To reveal the impact of organizational culture on managers decision making process in this study, analysis of the correlation and regression that are made has been found positive and significant relationship between organizational culture and management decision-making process. It has been shown to have an effect on the executive decision-making process of the organization's culture. According to the result of t -test and ANOVA test it has been found no significant differences in demographic characteristics between the executive decision making process.