The relationship of management style perception in organizations with employee impression management and career satisfaction: A research in the manufacturing industry in Düzce province

Organizations have different goals and each organization needs to cooperate with their stakeholders to achieve this goal. As well as organizations have goals, their stakeholders in the relationship have their own goals. Even parties that gather around a common goal may have goals that differ in their essence. The parties, who use various methods in the realization of these goals, choose the methods they choose in accordance with their own abilities, while at the same time choosing in accordance with the culture of the organization and the management style of the management. Employees, on the other hand, use impression management tactics to try to influence others and shape the ideas that will emerge about themselves. Employees who can successfully manage their impressions are satisfied with their careers by reaching their career goals more easily. The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between management style perception in organizations and employees' impression management behaviors and career satisfaction. In the study, it was examined whether the impression management tactics and career satisfaction that people use according to the management style they perceive changed and what kind of impression management they developed according to the democratic-participatory, fully liberalist, autocratic management style and how career satisfaction was shaped positively or negatively according to their management style perceptions. It has been evaluated. It has been observed that the impression management to be used by the person has an effect on the career satisfaction of the person and it has been evaluated that these two concepts are related to each other. The population of the research conducted within the province of Düzce is composed of the manufacturing sector employees in the province of Düzce. In the study where quantitative research method was preferred, the data were collected by using the full count method with the questionnaire technique. As a result of the correlation and regression analysis performed to measure the relationships between variables, it was found that there were significant relationships between the variables of management style perception, impression management and career satisfaction. The differences of these variables according to demographic characteristics were tested using T-Test and ANOVA analysis, and significant differences were found as a result of the analysis.