Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Academıc Studıes In Socıal, Human and Admınıstratıve Scıences, Atik ATİLLA, Demir Murat Cem, Editör, Gece Akademi, Ankara, ss.51-66, 2018
INTRUDUCTION
Leadership is an essential part of the objectives to be realized and in all environments
and conditions where people are going to achieve these objectives.
Ever non-leader or organization is no different from a machine stack, just like
a ship without a master and a route. In addition to the difficulties in managing
businesses that want to succeed in increasingly competitive conditions especially
with globalization, the nation of leadership has come to the forefront along
with the concept of management in order to better manage the financial and intellectual
capital. From pasts to today many definitions have been made on the
concept of leadership, which is so important for businesses. When we look at
the research on leadership the common feature of leadership definitions is the
role the leader has in influencing people. On the basis of leadership, in order to
achieve success and effectiveness you need to influence individuals and groups
they form, to mobilization and motivation. Research has revealed that effective
leadership behaviour enhance organizational success and effectiveness. Therefore
desired organizational success and efficiency can be achieved together with
correct leadership behaviour. Maritime transport enterprises seeking to be successful
in the maritime sector where global completion is intense and to increase
their organizational activities should also determine the leadership behaviour
displayed by the managers and measure their influence on the employees. From
this point of view, the aim of this work is to identify the leadership behaviours
From this point of view the aim of this work is to identify the leadership behaviours
exhibited by ship masters who has a critical role in the ship’s administration
and management and to reveal the relationship between these leadership behaviours
and the job satisfaction and job performance of seafarers. In the study the
effect of leadership behaviours of the ship masters’s on-the-job satisfaction and
individual job performance of the seafarers was measured and the interim variable
role of job satisfaction in this interaction was evaluated. For this purpose the
data obtained by the survey method from the deck and machine class seafarers
working on commercial vessels operating on the ocean going where analyzed
with the help of SPSS 22 and AMOS 22 statistical package programs. When the
leadership literature is examined it is seen that studies in many sectors have examined
the relationship between leadership and organizational or individual activities
(Yulk, 2002; Mester et al., 2003; Tengilimoğlu & Yigit, 2005; Gadot, 2006;
Chang & Chang, 2007; Emery & Barker, 2007; Magsood et al., 2013; Anwar &
Haider, 2015; Kebede & Sayemek, 2017). When the national and international
literature is examined the importance of this work is emphasized in maritime
in the industry, especially in terms of seafarers to determine the leadership be-
haviours displayed by the masters of the ships and to measure the satisfaction of
these leadership behaviours and the impact on job performance, so it is thought
that this work will contribute to this field.