Abstract:

This study aims to reveal the relationship between ethical leadership, work motivation and work burden. The research was carried out in a semi-private company that continues to operate in the energy sector and the survey was carried out with 433 employees. The variables involved in the study were tested by the method of correlation and hierarchical regression analysis. Analysis shows that ethical leadership has a mediation effect on the relationship between the perception of workload and the work motivation. The subdimensions covered by the variables (for ethical leadership; for communication ethics; for behavioral ethics; for decision-making ethics and climate ethics; for work motivation; for internal motivation and external motivation; for the perception of work burden) were also added to the analysis and the comments were made in this direction. This study found that the perception of labor burden has a negative tendency and meaningful impact on the ethical leadership perception, that the perception of ethical leadership has a positive tendency and meaningful impact on the work motivation, that the perception of labor burden has a negative and meaningful impact on the work motivation, and that the mediation effect of ethical leadership in the relationship between the perception of labor burden and the work motivation. This study was carried out in the energy sector and is important in terms of directing practitioners to conduct research in different sectors, different locations and close topics as a approach.

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