A research on the role of servant leadership at the formation and sustainability of corporate culture

Corporate culture is seen as an important factor to achieve corporate objectives. Corporations should preserve, update and maintain their culture which they generated contemporaneously in this constantly changing environment. The corporate leaders who mobilise the employee in line with the corporate objectives and play an important role at maintaining the corporate culture and its core values, have strategic duties. To complete this duties corporate leaders should use their traits such as self sacrifice. Thus in this study the role of servant leader at formation and sustainability the corporate culture is tested with a survey. In line with this purpose the survey is taken place at Ardahan University to 277 participants including academic and administrative personnel. This study consists of four main chapters. In the first chapter it consistis the subject and purpose, the hypotheses and methodology, the basic concepts and definitions and the presentation subheadings of the research. In the second chapter the concept of leadership, features of a leader and difference between leadership and andministration are introduced. Besides traditional and contemporary approachs to the lieadership and ways of leading are investigated. In the chapter of this study it is given coverage to servant leadership approachs, starting point of servant leadership and models of servant leadership by refering the future performance of it. In the third chapter conceptual framework such as features, aims, components, functions, generation and maintainability of corporate culture are introduced. In addition to this corporate culture models which investigated frequently in the literature, are reviewed to make the subject clear. Fourth chapter of the study includes the analysis and findings of the survey. Results show that servant leadership effects corporate culture at a certain level. Finally the results and suggestions are offered. Keywords: Culture, Corporate Culture, Leader, Leadership, Servant Leadership