Incompatibility Of Management Style With Organizational Culture - One Cause Of Business Malfunction

Many times organizational culture is a factor neglected by many managers, that is not being considered in building the strategies they pursue. Also, the interaction between organizational culture and management style is often the source of company conflicts and malfunction. Their non-calibration leads to a decrease in the performance of the organization, which means a drop in stakeholders interest. This paper aims to identify a way of calibrating the management style with the existing organizational culture in a company based on research of the literature referring to the aspects organizational cultures and criteria for grouping managerial styles. It is proposed a way to calibrate the compatibility of the management style of the occupants of the management positions of an organization with the organizational culture using two matrices to assess this compatibility. As a result of the research one can conclude that each managerial style has favorable and unfavorable features, so it can be efficient or not depending on the specificity of the organizational culture. That is why it is necessary to find correlations between managerial styles and the specific factors of organizational culture so that the company can be competitive on the market on which it operates.