LEADERSHIP STYLES OF HOTEL MANAGERS IN THE DUBROVNIK-NERETVIAN COUNTY – EMPIRICAL RESEARCH

Leadership is a managerial function which is directly connected to human resources and their interactions in order to achieve individual and group organizational aims. Without qualitative leadership, high motivation and human factor there is no successful organization. Because of its specifics, complexity and the way of leading, hotel enterprises are characterised with competitiveness and changing environment in a tourism demand. The aim of the paper is to diagnose the dominant leadership style in hospitality industry
in Dubrovnik-neretvian county through the survey of top and middle management in the summer 2004. established on a Likert leadership models. Research results are presented in the paper.