The Effect of Ethical Leadership and Materialist Tendencies on Employees' Perception of Corporate Social Responsibility

Year 2019, Volume: 16 Issue: 1, 136 - 153, 15.03.2019

Faruk Kerem Şentürk , Erhan Boğan , Mehmet Bayırlı

https://doi.org/10.24010/soid.476290

Cited By: 1

Abstract

This study
investigates the effect of materialist tendencies at the individual level and
ethical leadership at the organizational level on the perception of corporate
social responsibility (CSR) activities of the enterprise. In this context,
hotel enterprises have been preferred from tourism enterprises which have high
demand elasticity and data from employees of 5 star hotel enterprises have been
collected. The center of Alanya which is a leading tourist destination was
preferred as research area. Quantitative methods used in the research and data
were collected through questionnaires. According to the findings, ethical
leadership is the variable that has the most positive effect on the perception
towards all CSR dimensions, and followed by success-oriented materialist
tendency. Happiness-oriented materialist tendency has a negative impact on CSR
perception for employees and the state. No significant effect was found between
the tendency to put materialism at the center of his life and the perception of
all CSR sub-dimensions.

Keywords

Ethical Leadership, Materialist Tendency, Corporate Social Responsibility

Etik Liderlik ve Materyalist Eğilimlerin Otel Çalışanlarının Kurumsal Sosyal Sorumluluk Algısına Etkisi: Alanya Örneği

Abstract

Bu çalışma bireysel
düzeyde materyalist eğilimlerin, örgütsel düzeyde ise etik liderliğin
işletmenin ortaya koyduğu kurumsal sosyal sorumluluk (KSS) faaliyetlerinin
algılanmasına etkisini araştırmaktadır. Araştırma evreni Alanya merkezde
faaliyet gösteren 5 yıldızlı otel çalışanlarından oluşmaktadır. Evren içinden
hesaplanarak örneklem alınmış ve 318 otel çalışanı üzerinde çalışma
gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırma sonucunda elde edilen bulgulara göre etik
liderlik tüm KSS boyutlarına yönelik algıyı pozitif yönde en çok etkileyen
değişken iken onu başarı odaklı materyalist eğilim takip etmektedir. Mutluluk
odaklı materyalist eğilimin ise çalışana ve devlete yönelik KSS algısına
negatif yönde etki ettiği ortaya çıkmıştır.

Keywords

Etik Liderlik, Materyalist Eğilim, Kurumsal Sosyal Sorumluluk, Otel İşletmeleri

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