Factors affecting organizational effectiveness in independent hotels – The case of Iran

Because of an increasingly competitive environment managers independent hotels need to enhance organizational effectiveness. Therefore, it is crucial understand what factors affect To help achieve this, our study tests if transformational, transactional and laissez-faire leadership-styles, could indirectly influence effectiveness through market adhocracy culture. Iran was chosen because a developing country with growing tourist industry that has been under much restriction since the revolution. Survey data were gathered from in 340 questionnaires returned out 1050 distributed examined using structural equation modelling. Our findings show transformational leadership-style indirect relationship culture types. However, leadership only market-culture type adhocracy-culture type. This paper adds body literature on application full range theory, which developed West, other regional contexts as well fresh look into these styles including It also hotels, are important yet under-researched part hospitality industry.