Ways to Promote Employee Work Engagement in Healthcare Organizations: Servant Leadership and Organizational Justice

Year 2023, Volume: 8 Issue: "Cumhuriyet'in 100. Yılında Türkiye'nin Sosyo-Ekonomisi" Özel Sayısı, 153 - 166, 29.10.2023

Nida Palabıyık , İbrahim Yıkılmaz , Lütfi Sürücü

https://doi.org/10.25204/iktisad.1339209

Cited By: 1

Abstract

This study aims to explore the intermediary function of organizational justice in the correlation between healthcare practitioners’ perceived perception of servant leadership and work engagement. A total of 412 health professionals from three state hospitals in Kocaeli province participated in this research. A survey was administered to the participants selected through the convenience sampling approach. The data from the administered questionnaires were analyzed using the SPSS Process Macro based on the bootstrap technique. The results provide empirical validation for the hypothesis that perceiving servant leadership positively impacts the level of work engagement. Moreover, the research has shown that perceptions of organizational justice influence this positive effect. Additionally, it has been found that perceiving servant leadership has a favorable influence on organizational justice, which, in turn, positively impacts the level of work engagement. Based on these findings, managers may adopt servant leadership behaviors to promote work engagement and enhance perceptions of organizational justice.

Keywords

Leadership, servant leadership, engagement, work engagement, organizational justice

Sağlık Kuruluşlarında İşe Adanmışlığı Teşvik Etme Yolları: Hizmetkâr Liderlik ve Örgütsel Adalet

Abstract

Bu çalışma, sağlık çalışanlarının algılanan hizmetkâr liderlik algısı ile işe adanmaları arasındaki ilişkide örgütsel adaletin aracılık fonksiyonunu araştırmayı amaçlamaktadır. Araştırmaya Kocaeli ilindeki üç devlet hastanesinden toplam 412 sağlık çalışanı katılmıştır. Kolayda örnekleme yöntemiyle seçilen katılımcılara anket uygulanmıştır. Uygulanan anketlerden elde edilen veriler, bootstrap tekniğine dayalı SPSS Süreç Makrosu kullanılarak analiz edilmiştir. Sonuçlar, hizmetkâr liderliğe yönelik algının işe adanmışlık düzeyini olumlu yönde etkilediği hipotezinin ampirik olarak doğrulanmasını sunmaktadır. Ayrıca araştırma, örgütsel adalet algısının bu olumlu etkiyi etkilediğini ortaya koymuştur. Ayrıca hizmetkâr liderliğin örgütsel adaleti olumlu yönde etkilediği, bunun da işe adanmışlık düzeyini olumlu yönde etkilediği tespit edilmiştir. Bu bulgulara dayanarak yöneticiler, işe adanmışlığı teşvik etmek ve örgütsel adalet algısını geliştirmek için hizmetkâr liderlik davranışlarını benimseyebilir.

Keywords

Liderlik, hizmetkâr liderlik, adanma, işe adanmışlık, örgütsel adalet

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