CREATING ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT THROUGH SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP: MEDIATING EFFECT OF MEANING AT WORK

Fierce competition and oppressing business life of 21st century has given birth to changes in business life and caused some troubles on the side of employees. Unsatisfaction regarding daily working habits has given way to increasing demands of employees regarding a more humane and more meaningful work. In this point, workplace spirituality and spiritual leadership come to scene as possible remedies for the meaninglessness and disappointment of modern employees. In the study, it is hypothesized that spiritual leadership has a positive effect on organizational commitments of employees and the sense of meaning act as a mediator in this relationship. In this paper, we will first explain the spiritual constructs like workplace spirituality and spiritual leadership. And than we will explain our research regarding the relationship among spiritual leadership, sense of meaning and organizational commitment in details. In order to test the relationships in our model a field research has been applied on 800 turkish academicians by using online and face to face surveys. And 190 usable answers have been obtained. Results of the study has been analyzed by using SPSS. 22 program.

SPİRİTÜEL LİDERLİK ARACILIĞI İLE ÖRGÜTSEL BAĞLILIK YARATMA: İŞTE ANLAM DUYGUSUNUN ARACI ETKİSİ

21. yüzyılda, şiddetli rekabet ve baskıcı iş ortamları, çalışanların iş hayatında önemli değişikliklere ve sıkıntılara sebep olmuştur. Günlük çalışma alışkanlıklarına ilişkin memnuniyetsizlik, çalışanların daha insancıl ve anlamlı bir çalışma konusundaki taleplerinin artmasına yol açmıştır. Bu noktada, işyeri maneviyatı ve spiritüel liderlik, modern çalışanların anlamsızlığı ve hayal kırıklklarını gidermek için potansiyel çareler olarak ortaya çıkmıştır. Çalışmada, spiritüel liderliğin çalışanların örgütsel bağlılıkları, iş hayatında anlam duygusu üzerinde olumlu bir etkiye sahip olduğu ve anlam duygusunun söz konusu ilişkide aracı etkiye sahip olduğu varsayılmıştır. Bu çalışmada, önce işyeri maneviyatı ve manevi liderlik gibi manevi yapılar ele alınacak,. daha sonra da spiritüel liderlik, anlam duygusu ve örgütsel bağlılık arasındaki ilişki ile ilgili araştırmamızı detaylarıyla açıklanacaktır. Modelimizdeki ilişkileri test etmek için, çevrimiçi ve yüz yüze anketler kullanarak 800 Türk akademisyene saha araştırması yapılmıştır. Ve 190 kullanışlı cevap elde edilmiştir. Çalışmanın sonuçları SPSS 22 programı kullanılarak analiz edilmiştir.

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