Özet:

It is possible to say that studies on management culture in Turkey and the world are notably inadequate. The management culture is the values representing managers’ management styles, beliefs, expectations and behaviors system. Thanks to management culture, the abstract of beliefs, values, attitudes and behaviors that represent to decisions and movements of managers both in public and private sector on developing their organizations is understood. In this sense, it can be said, while explaining the term management culture that the “manager” is the active and subject element, because values, beliefs, norms and behaviors belonging to the managers form as the management style. On the other hand, traditional management understanding that left its mark on public management for a long while described state’s role in the society with focuses on centralization, restriction and hierarchical structure. New public management understanding which has had a broad repercussion in the world agenda since 1980s deals with public sector that is characterized as statist, bureaucratic, compulsive, monotonous, centralized and hierarchical in a business administration method with features of market orientation, less bureaucratic, customer centered, flexible, accountable, decentralized in management, entrepreneur and reformist. This understanding leads people and organizations improve their performance while directing managers to entrepreneurship. Market mechanism contributes to this process via clarifying public managers’ and organizations’ methods used in reaching their aims and determining their preferences. In other words, it is possible to say that a new management culture has begun to develop together with a new Public Management Understanding. Management culture term, culture’s power to create a behavior pattern, bureaucratic culture in public management culture and the features of new management culture will be examined.

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