Research Article

The Relationship between Mayors’ Servant Leadership Styles and Quality of City Life

Number: 5 December 9, 2019
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The Relationship between Mayors’ Servant Leadership Styles and Quality of City Life

Abstract

Mayors are known by the public via the services they provide. Therefore, they act as servants and adopt “servant leadership” style. It is expected that the relationship between the services provided by servant leaders who build relationships with employees and the group that is served, who supports them and who take care of their problems, with quality of city life, shape the perceptions of citizens about successful management. In this study, the main purpose is to reveal the relationship between the perceptions of university students about their district of residence mayor’s extent of displaying servant leadership qualifications and their self evaluations about quality of city life. With this purpose, a survey that consists two scales is applied to the 121 active students of Bursa Technical University, which is in Yıldırım district, Bursa. The former scale is “Servant Leadership Scale” that is developed by Demirel et.al. (2012). The latter is “Importance-Performance Analysis Scale” that is developed by Karamustafa, Güllü and Acar (2010). The gathered data is analyzed via SPSS 22.0 package programme and factor analysis and regression analysis are applied. According to the findings, there is a statistically significant effect of servant leadership on quality of city life, especially in terms of Service/Humility dimensions. Therefore in the future, making researches on different districts, different cities and different regions can give the chance of drawing a general frame of Turkey. Thus, necessary amendments in the services that are provided by the municipalities would be done and the perceptions of citizens in terms of quality of city life can increase in a positive way.

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Supporting Institution

Bursa Teknik Üniversitesi

Project Number

182N25

Thanks

We appreciate Bursa Technical University for supporting our project

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 9, 2019

Submission Date

November 18, 2019

Acceptance Date

November 30, 2019

Published in Issue

Year 2019 Number: 5

APA
Rüzgar, N., Odabaşoğlu, A. N., & Özkan, B. (2019). The Relationship between Mayors’ Servant Leadership Styles and Quality of City Life. IBAD Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 5, 598-614. https://doi.org/10.21733/ibad.648394

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