The influence of the religious leadership on organizational culture

This paper examines the relationships between organizational culture and religious leadership in organizations. Organizational culture is an important factor affecting the performance of the organization and religious leadership also is a component's key in organization's success. Therefore it is important to khnow how the relationship between these two factors affecting the organization's performance. In this research, three groups of organizational culture including; gregarious, developmental and hierarchical and also two style of leadership means; transformational and leaderfollower exchange has been studied.Practical aim and data collection method in this study is descriptive and based on branch correlation. The results of the research is survey - correlation and in fact is based on structural equations model. The research has also shown that gregarious culture has influence on leader-follower exchange and also developmental culture has positive and significant effect on both transformational leadership and leader-follower exchange, but hierarchical culture has negative impact on both leadership style. At the end, based on the aim of this study, conceptual model and some practical recommendations and suggestions for future research is presented.