Ideal leadership perception of undergraduate and graduate students: An application

Management issue has always been on the agenda since the foundation of the earth. Since when the process of collective living emerged, the issue of manager and managed began to gain importance. The dimension of manager is the most important part of the process of manager and managed. The role of manager has high importance on the survival of groups or society. Because leaders are the people who establish unity, solidarity, cooperariton and equity in group and society. This main principles are the keystone of groups and society entailing them to be strong and robust. Leaders adjust this keystones seasonable. Briefly, leadership is the reason of being for group and community life. This research was carried out by conducting a questionnaire to the undergraduate and gradaute sudents studying Management of Business Administration (MBA) in a foundation university. As the sudents studying business administariton take courses involving leadership, we preferred them as an experimental subject. Our goal is to determine the ideal leadership perception of undergraduate and gradaute sudents. Research data were collected by using Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) developed by Kouzes and Posner (2003). The questionnaire involves two parts. The first part is composed of information form, the second part is composed of (LPI) involving questions. (LPI) consist of five subcategories. This categories are; establishing shared vision, risk taking, recognition, appraisal and establishing team work. In this dissertation, ideal leadership perception of senior students and gradaute sudents studying (MBA) in 2015-2016 term was searched. In the research, the questionnaire was held to senior students (232) and gradaute sudents (92) studying (MBA). Data were totally collected from 324 sudents.