A STUDY OF LEADERSHIP IN URBANIZATION PROCESS: A CASE STUDY AT THE ESENYURT MUNICIPALITY

Abstract

The purpose of this survey research is to identify if a mayor could be a leader too and if there is a relationship between local development and leadership. We make a survey among the colloquies and co-workers to examine if they see their mayor as a leader. We distribute 500 questionnaire and took back 300 of them. Only 213 of them are answered totally true. The questionnaire that we used is Blake and Mouton’s Leadership selfevaluating assessment which is redesigned according to followers. Analysis are done through SPSS 20.Furthermore, an interview done with the Mayor to understand his leadership style. According to analysis, results are showing us that 171 people among 211 believe that Mayor is a leader. Beside this, there is no difference among women and men on acceptance of mayor as a leader. There is a positive relation between leadership and modernity. Furthermore, mayor seen as the biggest factor of local development and his leadership ability also has positive relation according to correlation analysis. We could explain leadership ability with variables as “giving value to other’s limits, coaching, encourage decision making, while correcting errors, jeopardize relationships, timely completion of the project, importance of finishing the task, find out whether every detail is thought, like to analyze problems.