ÇELİK, Mazlum Kara harp Okulu - yönetim bilişim bölümü (Yön Bil Böl), Turkey , TURUNÇ, Ömer Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi - İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi (İİBF), Turkey , BİLGİN, Necdet Celal Bayar Üniversitesi - İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi (İİBF), Turkey

THE MODERATING ROLE OF ETHICS IN THE EFFECT OF LEADER –MEMBER EXCHANGE AND CAREER SATISFACTION ON THE INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR: A QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

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The aim of this study is to determine the effect of the employees’ leader-member exchange and career satisfaction on the development of the innovative behaviors that have a great importance for the businesses and the moderating role of the ethic in this effect. According to the study carried out on 593 employees, it is determined that the leader –member exchange and the career satisfaction affect the employees’ innovative behavior positively and significantly and effect ethical behavior negative and significantly; the ethic approach doesn’t affect the employees’ innovative behavior. Besides, according to the results of hierarchical regression analysis studied to understand whether there is ethic approach’s moderating role related to independent variables effect innovative behavior, dependent variables, it is determined that the ethical behavior has a moderating role for the influences of the career satisfaction to innovative behavior and doesn’t have a moderating role for the influences of leader –member exchange to innovative behavior.

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Leader –Member Exchange (LMX) , Career Satisfaction , Ethic , Moderating Effect.

Mustafa Kemal University Journal Of Graduate School Of Social Sciences

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