The leadership styles of the Turkish and İtalian managers and a research about the Turkish-İtalian joint ventures in Turkey

For a long time leadership has been a subject that is studied many times for scientists and businesses. A leader is describied as a person who gives his own potential powers to others and direct them to reach the goal. In everywhere leadership can be talked about because of the sociality of human being. An effective leadership has an importance of the success and progress of businesses especially in the global world nowadays. The result of past and present surveys to describe leadership behaviours tells that although many approaches come out, in present by the help of six well known and accepted leadership styles, it fixed that every leader has his own style. These leadership styles are affected from many conditions. In the thesis, leadership styles of managers that have different cultures is searched and the effects of cultural differentes on leadership styles is tried to studied. A leader, because of a human being that is a social existence and people are affected from the cultural values of their societies so that in this thesis research in order to see the effect of the cultural differences on leadership styles Turkish and Italian societies are used as an example. In the result of this research, we have seen that the Turkish managers plan to the all activity of businesses and managements carefully and lead the employers in the all level, but the other side, the Italian managers appropriate the leadership style that is listen employers, consider their thoughts and thinkings and include them in the decision process and believe in team working. Keywords : Leadership, Leadership styles, Turkish Managers, Italian Managers, Jointventure