The main purpose of this paper is to show the linkages and inter-relationship among the leadership and organizational culture. Further authors want to know which leadership style employee would prefer to execute culture in the organisation. The study has been conducted in manufacturing firms of various locations in Gujarat with total sample size of 440 employees in order to investigate empirically the impact of leadership and organisational culture in Indian business context. This is an exploratory study of the relationship between leadership style and organizational culture. Correlations revealed that proactive culture preferred more compared to other organisational culture irrespective of style of leadership. The unexpected findings of correlations suggest that there is need for research in this area. It is further recommended that the relationship between the leadership practices the prevailing organisational cultures be measured according to subgroups such as caste, race, gender etc. and followed up by a qualitative investigation. Further comparative analysis could be done among the industries/service sectors.

Keywords: Leadership styles, corporate leaders, Organisational Culture