Abstract:

The research, which tested the mediating role of inclusive leadership perceptions in the effect of bank employees' openness to organizational change on job resourcefulness, was conducted with 139 employees. Questionnaire technique was used as a data collection tool in the study, which was planned in quantitative research design and cross-sectional type. In line with the data obtained, firstly the reliability and validity of the scales were tested, and then data analyzes were applied. According to the analysis findings, it was determined that the variables were in a statistically significant relationship with each other, organizational change had a significant and positive effect on the perception of inclusive leadership, the perception of inclusive leadership on job resourcefulness and openness to organizational change on business resourcefulness. It has been seen that inclusive leadership perception plays a mediating role in the effect of openness to organizational change and job resourcefulness with these variables, which have not been examined before in the literature. In this case, it can be suggested that an inclusive leadership style should be used to increase the job resourcefulness of bank employees who are open to organizational change in the dynamic banking sector. Conducting the research only in Karaman limited the generalizability of the results.

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