Organisational Culture and SMEs' Effectiveness within Emerging Market: A Leadership Perspective.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between leadership style, and organisational effectiveness by taking organisational culture as a mediator in the SMEs sector in emerging market such as Egypt. Studies on the relationship between organisational culture and leadership style, or leadership style and organisational effectiveness have been frequently published. However, some gaps remain in the literature on whether organisational culture mediates the relationship between leadership style and organisational effectiveness. For this study, the researcher adopted a deductive, quantitative survey research method, in which data collection was done using self-administrated questionnaires that were presented as a hard copy to participants. Questionnaires were then to be returned to the researcher. In total there were 385 respondents to the 900 questionnaires distributed. Last but not least, the Analysis used in this study is: Cronbach’s Alpha test used to investigate the reliability of scales used for this study and the results indicate all scales were within an acceptable range. Overall, the results indicate that organisational culture partially mediates the relationship between leadership style and organisational effectiveness.