The Mediating Role of Work Engagement in the Effect of Leader-Member Exchange on Organizational Commitment

Year 2024, Volume: 12 Issue: 2, 117 - 138, 31.08.2024

Fatma Hümeyra Haskebabçı , Ebru Aykan

https://doi.org/10.22139/jobs.1495968

Abstract

The leader-member exchange theory, which focuses on the bilateral relationship between leaders and employees, aims to maximize business's success by establishing a constructive and positive interaction between the leader and the employee. Work engagement and organizational commitment behaviors, which are desired for increased company performance and productivity, also go through a qualified leader-employee exchange. The higher the quality of the leader-employee relationship, the more organizational commitment and work engagement behaviors are shaped and increased accordingly. In this regard, this study focuses on investigating the effect of the relationship between the leader and its employees on employees' work engagement and organizational commitment, and the mediating role of work engagement in the relationship between leader-member exchange and organizational commitment. The research was conducted among the employees of companies located in Kayseri Organized Industrial Zone. The results of the data collected from 339 employees via survey technique have been revealed that leader-member exchange is related to employees' work engagement and commitment behaviors and affects these behaviors in a significant and positive way. Additionally, work engagement behavior tested with Process Macro Model-4 was found to have a mediating role.

Keywords

Leader-Member Exchange, Work Engagement, Organizational Commitm

Lider-Üye Etkileşiminin Örgütsel Bağlılık Üzerindeki Etkisinde İşe Adanmışlığın Aracılık Rolü

Abstract

Liderler ve çalışanlar arasındaki ikili ilişkiye odaklanan lider-üye etkileşimi teorisi, liderle çalışan arasında yapıcı ve olumlu bir etkileşim kurulmasıyla işletmenin başarısını en üst seviyeye çıkarmayı amaçlamaktadır. İşletmelerde performans artışı ve verimlilik için istenilen bir durum olan işe adanmışlık ve örgütsel bağlılık davranışları da nitelikli bir lider-çalışan etkileşiminden geçmektedir. Lider-çalışan ilişkisinin kalitesi ne kadar yüksek olursa örgütsel bağlılık ve adanmışlık davranışları da ona göre şekillenerek artmaktadır. Bu doğrultuda bu çalışma, liderle çalışanları arasındaki ilişkinin çalışanların işe adanmışlığı ve örgütsel bağlılığı üzerindeki etkisini araştırmaya ve lider-üye etkileşimi ile örgütsel bağlılık ilişkisinde işe adanmışlığın aracı rolüne odaklanmaktadır. Araştırma, Kayseri Organize Sanayi Bölgesinde bulunan işletme çalışanlarına yapılmıştır. 339 çalışandan anket tekniği ile toplanan verilerin sonuçları; lider-üye etkileşiminin çalışanların işe adanmışlık ve bağlılık davranışları ile ilişkili olduğunu ve bu davranışları anlamlı ve pozitif bir şekilde etkilediğini ortaya koymuştur. Ayrıca Process Makro Model-4 ile test edilen işe adanmışlık davranışının, aracı rolü olduğu tespit edilmiştir.

Keywords

Lider-Üye Etkileşimi, İşe Adanmışlık, Örgütsel Bağlılık

Ethical Statement

Bu araştırma için Kayseri Üniversitesi Etik Kurulundan E.99974 sayılı ve 65/2024 form no’lu etik kurul onay belgesi alınmıştır.

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