The Perceptions of Health Care Personnel About Ethical Leadership Behavior

Şantaş, F., Çıraklı, Ü. & Çelik, Y. (2014). The Perceptions of Health Personnel about Ethical Leadership Behavior. V. European Conference on Social and Behavioral Sciences, September 11-14, 2014, St Petersburg, Russia

THE PERCEPTIONS OF HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL ABOUT ETHICAL LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOR

ABSTRACT

The ethical leadership is an important method used for placing the ethic in the organization. The basis of leadership is the ethic and powerful leaders may have important affects both on the behaviors of flowers and the fate of organization. Also, the main reason of the researchers’ interest in the ethical dimension of the leadership is the great power of the leader to influence. As in all organizations, the leaders in the health organizations are also responsible for creating and maintaining a culture that emphasize the importance of the ethical behaviors.  Employees learn the values and beliefs of their organizations by watching their leaders and behaviors of the leaders. Hence, the evaluations of the health personnel about leaders’ ethical behaviors, which can be taken as the role models by health personnel, are of great importance. Although in the international literature a lot number of studies with the topic of the ethical leadership in the health sector have been conducted, in the Turkey the number of the studies in this area is extremely limited. The aim of this study is to determine the perceptions of the health personnel about their leaders’ ethical behavior and to detect whether the individual characteristics of the health personnel effect these perceptions or not. For this purpose, an ethical leadership scale which has the reliability and validity was applied to 206 health personnel in a public hospital in the province of Yozgat in Turkey. The results of this study show that health personnel’s perceptions about the ethical behaviors of their leaders are generally negative. Accordingly, in this study it was determined that while the variables of occupation, education, age, total years of employment and gender effect the perceptions of health personnel about the ethical leadership, the variables of marial status and receiving training related to leadership do not make an important difference in terms of the ethical leadership perceptions of the health personnel.

Keywords:Ethical Leadership, health personnel, hospital, ethic, Turkey.

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