The effects of organizational culture and leadership performance

The aim of this study is to investigate whether the organizational culture and leadership have an effect on performance. The study, in the first place, starts with literature search on organizational culture, leadership and performance. The literature search displays that these three subjects are usually studied on their own and effects of organizational culture, leadership and performance on each other are not sufficiently tackled. Thus, this study intends to help filling this gap, through a survey-based investigation. In the first part of the study, the concept of organizational culture is defined and the dimensions that constitute the organizational culture are explained in detail. In the second part of the study, the concept of leadership is defined and the components that compose the leadership concept are described in detail. In the third part of the study, the impact of organizational culture and leadership over performance is examined with the assistance of survey data. The main mass of the survey is represented by the managers of a shopping mall. As a result of the analysis, it was seen that there is a meaningful relationship between organizational culture and leadership, organizational culture, performance and leadership and performance.