Estimating the Impact of Leadership Styles on Knowledge Management Application Strategies

Abstract

This study analysed the influences of leadership styles on knowledge management application strategies from the perspective of managers and employees working at five stars hotels located in the capital of Jordan- Amman, the results of the study indicate that the majority of managers heavily adopted a combination of telling and selling as leadership styles and they rarely used the delegating leadership style in their attempt to apply knowledge management strategies. From the employees perspective knowledge management application strategies implies that managers should be capable for allowing to employees to determine their own organizational objectives because they are know more about their jobs than mangers, so it should allow to employees to carry out the decisions to do their jobs.

Key words: leadership styles, Strategy, knowledge management application.