THE EFFECT OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP ON EMPLOYEES’ JOB SATISFACTION: A STUDY ON MUNICIPALITIES IN KONYA

Year 2017, Volume: 19 Issue: 4, 18 - 35, 22.12.2017

Melis Attar , Vural Çağlıyan , Zejnepe Ajdarovska

Abstract

During the last few
years, ethics and integrity concepts get bigger attention in the leadership
scope and studies on the ethical leader behavior is growing at all levels in
the organizations due to repetitive ethical scandals. Besides, how much
employees are satisfied with their jobs become an important issue for leaders
since employees’ job satisfaction may well result in good performance and in turn
may effect the overall organization positively. Researchers advocate that
ethical leadership behaviors will increase the satisfaction levels. In this
study, the relationship between ethical leadership and employees’ job
satisfaction levels is analyzed based on the existing literature and by using
the structural equation modeling (SEM) in hypothesis testing. This study is
distinguished from others in using SEM analysis. The data were collected from
224 administrative personnel of Konya Greater Municipality and Central Province
Municipalities (Selçuklu Municipality, Meram Municipality and Karatay
Municipality). The study uses the ethical leadership questionnaire of Brown, M.
E., Treviño, L. K. and Harrison, D. A. (2005) and job satisfaction
questionnaire – Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) developed by Weiss,
D. J., Davis, R. V., England, G. W. and Lofquist, L. H. (1967). Results from
SEM analysis indicates that ethical leadership behavior positively affect the
job satisfaction level of employees. Thus, the disclosures from this research
reinforce the theoretical concept that increasing perception of ethical leadership
behavior increases the level of job satisfaction.

 

Keywords

Ethic, Leadership, Ethical Leadership

THE EFFECT OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP ON EMPLOYEES’ JOB SATISFACTION: A STUDY ON MUNICIPALITIES IN KONYA

Abstract

Son yıllarda, tekrarlayan etik skandallar, etik ve ahlaki
değerlere liderlik kapsamında daha büyük bir önem atfedilmesini sağlamıştır.
Organizasyonlarda etik liderlik davranışı üzere yapılan çalışmalar da artış
göstermektedir. Bunun yanında, çalışanların işi ile ne kadar tatmin oldukları da
liderler için önem arz etmektedir çünkü çalışanların iş tatmininin, kişisel
performanslarını ve sonucunda da örgütü olumlu etkileyeceği öngörülmektedir.
Çalışmalar, etik liderlik davranışlarının iş tatminini arttırdığı yönündedir. Bu
çalışmada, etik liderlik ile çalışanların iş tatmini düzeyleri arasındaki
ilişki, mevcut literatüre dayalı olarak ve hipotez testinde yapısal eşitlik
modellemesi (YEM) kullanılarak analiz edilmiştir. Çalışma diğerlerinden YEM
kullanılması sebebi ile ayrışmaktadır. Veriler, Konya Büyükşehir Belediyesi ve
Merkez İl Belediyelerinde (Selçuklu Belediyesi, Meram Belediyesi, ve Karatay
Belediyesi) çalışan 224 idari personelden toplanmıştır. Bu çalışmada, Brown, M.
E., Treviño, L. K. ve Harrison, D. A. (2005) tarafından geliştirilen etik
liderlik anketi ve Weiss, D. J., Davis, R. V., England, G. W. ve Lofquist, L.
H. (1967) tarafından geliştirilen iş tatmini anketi - Minnesota Satisfaction
Questionnaire (MSQ) kullanılmaktadır. Yapısal eşitlik modeli ile yapılan analizlerinden
elde edilen sonuçlar, etik liderliğin çalışanların iş tatmini düzeyini olumlu yönde
etkilediğini ortaya koymuştur. Araştırma sonuçları, etik liderlik davranış
algısının iş tatmini seviyesini yükselttiğini öngören teorik kavramı
güçlendirmektedir.

Keywords

Etik, liderlik, Etik Liderlik

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