Abstract:

Increasing employee performance in organizations is important in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. Organizational behavior and leadership styles can be effective in improving employee performance. This study has been conducted to determine the role of psychological capital in the effect of authentic leadership on employee performance in institutions. The study has been applied in the the mayor of a central district in Konya. It is hoped that it will fill the lack of the studies applied in the municipal institutions in the literature. The universe of the study consists of 170 civil servants in the district municipality. Questionnaires have been sent to all of the staff, 125 of them have been returned and 121 questionnaires have been considered valid. The questionnaire has been consisted of 16 questions related to authentic leadership scale, 6 questions related to employee performance scale and 24 questions for positive psychological capital. Statistical analysis of numerical parameters has been examined with Independent T-Test and One Way Anova. As homogeneity of variance could not be obtained, multiple comparisons have been examined by Tamhane T2 test. Correlation analyzes of the study have been examined with Correlation test techniques of Pearson and Spearman. SPSS 24 program has been used for analysis. As a result of the analysis, it has been determined that positive psychological capital had a partial mediation effect on the relationship between authentic leadership style and employee performance.  

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