Abstract:

Introduction and Goals: This study was conducted to determine the ethical leadership behaviors of the managing nurses and the organizational perceptions of justice of the nurses. Method and Requirements: This identifying type of research was conducted with 177 nurses working in a university hospital. In the collection of data, the sociodemographic question form was used, "Ethical Leadership Scale and Organizational Justice Perception Scale". The data was evaluated by frequency-percent, arithmetic average and standard deviation, Mann Whitney U test, Kruskal Wallis-H test, and Spearman Correlation analysis. Results: The ethical leadership scale and the organizational justice perception scale of responsible nurses have been found to have an average score significantly higher compared to clinical nurses (p<0,05). There was a statistically meaningful medium positive relationship between the average scores that nurses received from both scales (r=0,645, p<0,05). The study found that nurses and their managers found their ethical leadership behaviors at a medium level and that nurses’ organizational justice perceptions were at a medium level.

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