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The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between management styles and organizational culture in elementary schools. Relational survey model as a quantitative research methodology was employed in the study. The research population consists of 6058 school teachers working in public schools in Şahinbey and Şehitkâmil districts of Gaziantep in the academic year 2018-2019. The sample consists of 388 teachers determined by cluster sampling. The "Perceived Manager Management Style Scale" was used to measure management style, and the "Organizational Culture Scale" was used to measure organizational culture. As a result, it is found that school principals exhibit a collaborative management style and managers do not have authoritarian, resistant and indifferent management styles. Although supportive culture and success culture in schools were determined as dominant cultures, role and power culture was also in moderate levels. The views of male and female teachers about the sub-dimensions of administration style and organizational culture did not show significant difference yet, there are significant low and medium level relationships between management style sub-dimensions and organizational culture. Management style sub-dimensions are a significant predictor of organizational culture. Authoritarian management style had the highest correlation with power culture. Except for resistant management style, a significant relationship was found between management styles and success culture. Collaborative management style had the highest relationship with the culture of success. Collaborative management style had the highest relationship for management styles and support culture. One unit of change in the collaborativemanagement style predicted.51 units of change in the support culture.

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