EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF MORAL LEADERSHIP ON EMPLOYEES IN THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR


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ADIGÜZEL Z., CAKİR M.

Elektronik Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (elektronik), cilt.20, sa.77, ss.168-187, 2021 (Hakemli Dergi) identifier

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In today's competitive environment, both leadership styles and the attitudes and behaviors of employees havebecome critically important for the performance of companies. How successful companies are managed in theirsector is the subject of many studies. In particular, some psychological factors that employees experience in theorganization have positive or negative effect. Indeed, leadership style is one of the most important factorsamong these psychological effects . Within the scope of the study, the aim is to analyze the relationship amongmoral leadership, creativity, effective communication, emotional exhaustion and intrinsic motivation variableson engineers working in the manufacturing sector. When the data was analyzed, it was concluded that emotionalexhaustion had a negative effect on performance, but intrinsic motivation had a positive effect on employees.The research was conducted by collecting questionnaires from 427 white-collar employees working incompanies producing white goods in the manufacturing sector in Istanbul. SPSS 25 program was used to analyzethe data. Since the questions were asked on a Likert scale, firstly the factor and reliability analysis wereperformed, then the correlation analysis, regression analysis, and the sobel test and Hayes process were used inthe analysis of the mediation variable effect.