SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP AND QUALITY OF WORKPLACE RELATIONSHIPS

The main purpose of this study is to determine the effect of spiritual leadership, which wishes that employees find peace by meeting their spiritual and psychological needs, on the quality of workplace relationships. With this purpose, the sample of this study includes 276 employees working at two selected units affiliated to an Incorporated Company operating in the private sector. In the study in which easy sampling method was used, the data were obtained through a questionnaire technique that includes questions regarding demographic features, spiritual leadership and quality of workplace relationships. The data obtained were analysed with SPSS 20 and AMOS programs. In order to reveal the reliability and validity of the measurement models used in the study, confirmatory factor analysis as well as compound reliability (CR) and average variance extracted (AVE) tests were utilized. Hypotheses formed in order to achieve the purpose of the study, were tested using correlation and the structural equation modeling, and the results were interpreted accordingly. In the findings obtained as a result of the analyses, it was determined that the spiritual leadership characteristics of the managers have a positive effect both on the workplace quality and on all sub-dimensions of the workplace quality (leader-member, mentor-member, counterpart).