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

In today's competitive environment, both leadership styles and the attitudes and behaviors of employees have become critically important for the performance of companies. How successful companies are managed in their sector is the subject of many studies. In particular, some psychological factors that employees experience in the organization have positive or negative effect. Indeed, leadership style is one of the most important factors among these psychological effects . Within the scope of the study, the aim is to analyze the relationship among moral leadership, creativity, effective communication, emotional exhaustion and intrinsic motivation variables on engineers working in the manufacturing sector. When the data was analyzed, it was concluded that emotional exhaustion 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 in companies producing white goods in the manufacturing sector in Istanbul. SPSS 25 program was used to analyze the data. Since the questions were asked on a Likert scale, firstly the factor and reliability analysis were performed, then the correlation analysis, regression analysis, and the sobel test and Hayes process were used in the analysis of the mediation variable effect.