Bülent DEMİR, Gülbeniz AKDUMAN, Zeynep HATİPOĞLU

THE ROLE OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP PERCEPTION IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL TRUST AND WORK ENGAGEMENT

In today's fast-paced digital world, information is spreading with light, and there are many worries about trust and ethics. Trusting the organization and thinking that their leaders are behaving ethically effects the employees work engagement. The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of the role of ethical leadership perception ın the relationship between organizational trust and work engagement. In our research, easy-to-use sampling method has been preferred which is widely used as it is not based on likelihood and allows for inclusion in all cases. Sampling is included in all of the survey forms that are applied to 306 white-collar workers who are easily accessed by sampling online. A questionnaire consisting of four parts was used as data collection tool in the research. In the first part of the data collection tool, participants' demographic information form consisting of gender, marital status, number of children, age, education level and total study duration are included. The Organizational Trust Scale developed by Omarov (2009) and adapted to Turkish by Terekli (2010) is in the second part of the questionnaire. The third part of the questionnaire contains the Ethical Leadership Scale developed by De Hoogh and Den Hartog (2008) and adapted to Turkish by Alkan (2015). The fourth part of the questionnaire contains the Work Engagement Scaledeveloped by Schaufeli et al. (2002) and adapted to Turkish by Turgut (2011). SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 22.0 programs were used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the research, it was found that organizational trust had a positive and significant effect on the ethical leadership perception (β = 0.73, p <0.01), and that the ethical leadership perception was positively and significantly, 01) found that organizational trust was positively and significantly influenced on work engagement (β = 0.48, p <0.01) and that organizational trust was a mediating effect of ethical leadership perception between work engagement. The indirect effect of organizational trust on commitment to work (through ethical leadership perception) is 0.20 and this statistically significant effect (p <0,05) causes a 7% change in organizational trust and commitment to work (p> 0, 05).

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Ethical Leadership, Organizational Trust

THE ROLE OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP PERCEPTION IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL TRUST AND WORK ENGAGEMENT

In today's fast,paced digital world, information is spreading with light, and there are many worries about trust and ethics. Trusting the organization and thinking that their leaders are behaving ethically effects the employees work engagement. The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of the role of ethical leadership perception ın the relationship between organizational trust and work engagement. In our research, easy,to,use sampling method has been preferred which is widely used as it is not based on likelihood and allows for inclusion in all cases. Sampling is included in all of the survey forms that are applied to 306 white,collar workers who are easily accessed by sampling online. A questionnaire consisting of four parts was used as data collection tool in the research. In the first part of the data collection tool, participants' demographic information form consisting of gender, marital status, number of children, age, education level and total study duration are included. The Organizational Trust Scale developed by Omarov (2009) and adapted to Turkish by Terekli (2010) is in the second part of the questionnaire. The third part of the questionnaire contains the Ethical Leadership Scale developed by De Hoogh and Den Hartog (2008) and adapted to Turkish by Alkan (2015). The fourth part of the questionnaire contains the Work Engagement Scaledeveloped by Schaufeli et al. (2002) and adapted to Turkish by Turgut (2011). SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 22.0 programs were used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the research, it was found that organizational trust had a positive and significant effection the ethical leadership perception (β#=#0.73,#p#<0.01),and that the ethical leadership perception was positively and significantly, 01) found that organizational trust was positively and significantly influenced on work engagement# (β =# 0.48, p <0.01) and that organizational trust was a mediating effect of ethical leadership perception between work engagement. The indirect effect of organizational trust on#commitment#to#work#(through ethical leadership perception) is 0.20 and this statistically significant effect (p#<0,05) causes a 7% change in organizational trust and commitment to work (p>0, 05).

Keywords:

ETHICAL LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATIONAL TRUST, WORK ENGAGEMENT,

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