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The aim of this study is analysing the relationship between spiritual leadership behaviors of public sports organization employees and organizational burnout. The sample group of this study, where convenience sampling method was used, is consisted of 295 sports specialits and sports education specialist working Provincial Directorates of Youth and Sports.In the study, the spiritual leadership scale developed by Fry (2003) and adapted to Turkish by Gündüz (2014), the burnout scale developed by Pines and Aranson (1988) and adapted to Turkish by Çapri (2013) and a questionnaire consisting of demographic information were used as a data collection tool. Frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, correlation and simple linear regression analyses were used in the analysis of the data. The findings obtained from the research have shown us that there is a moderate negative correlation between spiritual leadership behaviors and organizational burnout. In the context of altruistic love, calling, membership, vision, and hope, which is sub-dimentions of the spritual leadership, there is a meaningful negative correlation. It was determined that spiritual leadership effects organizational burnout at the rate of %26. The mastery of this type of leadership understanding in organizations will be useful in terms of human factor and relationships, internal communication, well-being, satisfaction and therefore performance, which is the most important resource of organizations.

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