The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between sales managers’ leadership style and the organizational culture, and as a result, to propose methods to develop sales managers’ leadership and at the same time create the most fav...
The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between sales managers’ leadership style and the organizational culture, and as a result, to propose methods to develop sales managers’ leadership and at the same time create the most favorable organizational culture.
Issues raised to accomplish the purpose of the research are as follows: First, does the sales manager’s leadership style affect organizational culture in an insurance company’s sales organization? Second, does the leadership style of the sales organization and the organizational culture affect the organization’s performance? Third, does the combination of an insurance company’s sales manager’s leadership and organizational culture affect job satisfaction, organizational commitment and sales performance? For analysis, 1108 survey questions were handed out to the sales staff (financial planners) of K life insurance company.
Survey developed by Quinn in 1988, Steers in 1984 and Allen and Meyer in 1991 were used while statistical methods of factor analysis, cross analysis and disperse were used for analysis and these are the findings of the analysis.
First, the organizational culture of a sales organization is affected by the Branch Manager’s (sales manager) leadership style. There are two distinct leadership styles of the Branch Managers, one being, rational achiever who place emphasis on job and performance, and organizational goal. The other one is consensual culture style who focus more on intimacy and human relationships, and mutual trust and participation of people within the organization.
Second, organizational performance, namely, job satisfaction, job commitment and sales performance differ in accordance to the Branch Manager’s (sales manager) leadership style. In cases where the sales manager’s leadership style is of an empirical expert, job satisfaction and sales performance appeared to be the highest while the existential team builders leadership style showed the highest job commitment. The rational achiever leadership style exhibited the lowest job satisfaction, and the idealistic prime mover showed low job commitment and sales performance.
Third, the organizational staff’s job satisfaction, job commitment and sales performance appeared to be different in accordance to the organizational culture. When the organizational culture is of a developmental one, job satisfaction and sales performance showed the highest while job commitment exhibited the highest in a consensual culture. In a rational culture, all elements, job satisfaction, job commitment and sales performance were all low.
Fourth, organizational performance of the organization came out differently in accordance to the Branch Manager’s (sales manager) leadership and organizational culture. Thus, this research based on the competing value model shows that an organization’s staff’s job satisfaction, job commitment and sales performance differ according to leadership style and organizational culture. Through this empirical study, the empirical expert and developmental culture proved to have the highest job satisfaction and sales performance. However, in a model where the manager’s leadership and organization culture are combined, the existential team builder and consensual culture resulted in the highest job satisfaction and job commitment; and the empirical expert and hierarchical culture resulted in the highest sales performance.