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MUSHROOM MANAGEMENT APPROACH
Taşkın KILIÇ
Hatun OLGUN
ABSTRACT

The concept of Mushroom Management has been involved in the management science in recent years and is named 
after the metaphor of raising mushrooms. Just as mushrooms are fertilized, left in the dark and cultivated in a short 
time; mushroom managers also provide the necessary business resources to employees, however, they do not share the 
policies, revenues of the organization and business risks with them. The objective of study is to embrace and examine 
the concept of mushroom management theoretically, develop an assessment instrument for determining this perception 
and bring the concept and the scale in the Turkish literature. The theoretical part was formed by using the limited 
number of studies in literature. Field study was conducted by applying a questionnaire to 200 employees at a private 
health institution in the province of Trabzon with the help of an 8 point Likert scale, which was developed for 
measuring the concept of mushroom management. The acquired data were analyzed by using the SPSS and LISREL 
softwares. It was determined that study participants had moderate level of mushroom management perception. 58% 
of employees who participated in the study stated that the management did not establish a direct communication 
with junior employees and share all the information about the organization. On the other hand, a Turkish scale of 
eight items measuring the mushroom management perception was developed within the scope of this study. Besides, 
as mushroom management contains total opposite applications of open, democratic, participative and transparent 
management applications; it is perceived as a negative approach. However, it might turn into a useful means for 
managers in some cases (like preventing chaos, preserving the organization’s confidentiality) in practice.



Keywords: Mushroom Management , Knowledge Asymmetry , One-Way Communication

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