Özet:

In order for management activities to continue as desired, the employee's adaptation to the organization, performance, efficiency and motivation must be taken into account by the management. The ability of a manager who knows the employee and knows his wishes and desires to direct the employee to the goals of the organization and to obtain efficiency by keeping his motivation high, as well as the quality and success of the work produced, is closely related to the manager's managerial competence, communication and empathy skills, which are among his social skills. The reason for the study is that there is a need to reveal the relationship between the level of empathy that a manager should have and employee motivation in order to increase employee motivation. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of public manager empathy level on employee motivation. In addition, it is also aimed to reveal the importance of applying psychological tests to candidates in managerial recruitment processes in the public sector. In the research, since it was wondered whether the variables were related to each other, the relational research model was chosen and the survey technique was applied. The hypotheses of this research conducted in public institutions in Nevşehir are accepted as a result of correlation and regression analysis. As a result of the research, a strong, significant and positive relationship was determined between the level of manager empathy and employee motivation, and it was determined that the level of manager empathy is an important explainer, predictor and predictor of employee motivation.

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