Democratic Leadership and Management Quality

The purpose of the research was to determine the relationship between democratic leadership and management quality in commercial companies in the city of Barranquilla. Descriptive and correlational methodology, non-experimental, transectional and field design; the study population consisted of 27 employees: (3) operations managers, (24) store administrators of Carulla, Súper almacenes Olímpica (S.A.O) and Almacenes ÉXITO, to whom a questionnaire was applied; the reliability of the instrument was 0.93 with the Cronbach's Alpha coefficient, which indicates that it is highly reliable. The descriptive statistical analysis, with distribution of frequencies and percentages, to determine the relationship between the variables, Spearman's correlation was used. The results show the relationship between both variables with a high intensity, to the extent that democratic leadership increases, it is more likely to achieve a higher quality of management and vice versa. It was concluded that, due to deficiencies in democratic leadership approaches and tendencies, they considerably affect the consolidation of management quality factors.