THE EFFECT OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP ON EMPLOYEES’ JOB SATISFACTION: A STUDY ON MUNICIPALITIES IN KONYA
Journal Title: Kastamonu Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi - Year 2017, Vol 19, Issue 4
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 l eaders 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.
Authors and Affiliations
Melis ATTAR, Vural ÇAĞLIYAN, Zejnepe AJDAROVSKA
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- DOI 10.21180/kuiibf.2017434552
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