Dönüşümcü Liderlik Tarzının Bilgi Paylaşımına Etkisinde Destekleyici Örgüt İkliminin Aracı Rolüne Yönelik Bir Araştırma

Abstract

The change in today's business world shows itself, especially in the employees' expectations and demandsfrom their organizations. To meet the employees' expectations and needs, it has become inevitable to make someinnovations in organizations. It seems that there is a need for leaders who will support change and innovation. Theeffects of the supportive organizational climate created by transformational leaders on employees may manifestwith different results. One of these results is information sharing. The research examines the mediating role of thesupportive organizational climate in the impact of transformational leadership displayed in organizations and thesharing of employees’ knowledge. Research data were collected through a questionnaire. The first part of thequestionnaire is aimed at determining the demographic characteristics of the participants. The second part includesthe transformational leadership scale (independent variable), the third part of the supportive organizational climate(mediator variable), and the last part consists of the knowledge sharing (dependent variable) scale. In the analysisof research data, regression and correlation analysis were used besides validity and reliability analysis. To test themediation relationship, the method proposed by Baron-Kenny (1986), which handles the mediation relationship inthree stages, was used. One hundred thirty-five employees participated in the study. As a result, it has beendetermined that the supportive organizational climate has a full mediator role in the impact of transformationalleadership on employee’ knowledge sharing. Also, it was determined that there is a medium and high-levelcorrelational relationship between variables. In this context, high-level positive relations between transformationalleadership and supportive organizational climate, medium-level positive relations between transformational leadership and information sharing, and similarly medium-level positive relations between knowledge sharing andsupportive organizational climate were determined.leadership and information sharing, and similarly medium-level positive relations between knowledge sharing andsupportive organizational climate were determined.