A RESEARCH ON THE MEDIATING ROLE OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP PERCEPTION IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL TRUST AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEDICATION

Abstract

The main purpose of this research is to investigate the mediating role of ethical leadership perception between organizational trust and organizational dedication. 306 occupations participated in the research in various sectors. A questionnaire consisting of four parts was used as data collection tool in the research. The first part of the data collection tool contains a demographic information form. 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). In the fourth part of the questionnaire, Organizational Dedication Scale developed by Rich, Lepine and Crawford (2010) and adapted to Turkish by Kurtpınar (2011) is included. 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 the relationship between organizational trust and organizational dedication is mediated by the ethical leadership perception. The indirect effect of organizational trsut on organizational dedication (via ethical leadership perception) is 0.13, and this statistically significant effect (p <0.05) causes a 6% change in organizational trust and organizational dedication