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This research was carried out to test the mediating role of employee loyalty in the effect of paternalistic leadership perception of healthcare employees on their level of work engagement. The sample of the study consists of 310 healthcare professionals working in a private hospital operating in Istanbul. The research data was collected by face-to-face survey method. Process Macro v4.0 application and IBM SPSS 25.0 program were used in the analysis of the data. Participants’ paternalistic leadership perception mean score was 3.53±0.70, employee loyalty mean score was 3.71±0.79, and work engagement mean score was 3.55±0. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that paternalist leadership had positive significant effect on work engagement (β=0.523, t=10.766, p<0.01). As a result of the analysis, it was determined that paternalist leadership had positive significant effect on work engagement (β=0.535, t=11.103, p<0.01). Employee loyalty has positive significant effect on job engagement (β=0.728, t=18.640, p<0.01). Employee loyalty was found to have intermediating role in the effect of paternalistic leadership on work engagement (c'=0.3228, 95% CI [0.2382, 0.4180]). As a general result, it would be appropriate for health managers who want to increase the level of work engagement and employee loyalty of health care employees to show paternalistic leadership behavior. Since employee loyalty has intermediating role in this relationship, health managers can increase the level of work engagement of health care employees with practices that increase employee loyalty.

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