Investigating the relationship between trasformational leadership and motivation: The case of OSTİM oid

The main aim of this study is to make evaluation about Transformational Leadership, which is a new leadership approaches and explain the effect of this approach on motivation. The leadership approaches of the managers are very important for the motivation of employees in terms of establishments. Transformational leadership aims to increase the effect of motivation on people.Transformational leadership approach is open to future, innovative and changes. Transformational leadership approach is an approach which is the most prominent among the leadership approaches of the 21st century; and many studies are conducted on it. It is expected that there is a relationship between transformational leadership approach and motivations. Because inspiring motivation which is one of the elements of Transformations leadership indicate it.The research bases on the assessment made by the managers in the establishments in Ankara OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone. The data have been gained through the questionnaires conducted. In the research, the questions about the Transformational leadership were taken from Questionnaire for Managers (Demirci, 1998); and the questions about motivation were taken from Motivation Resources Inventory questionnaire (Barbuto ve Scholl, 1998) and the questions were adapted so that they would be answered by the target persons to be interviewed. Correlations test and t- Test were used for analysing the hypothesis of the study.When the results of the analysis are considered, it is seen that there are positive effects of Transformational leadership on motivation. It is seen that Transformational leadership has positive effect on all five dimensions of Motivation Sources Inventories. On the other hand, it is seen that the education level of the managers has no affect on the result of the Transformational leadership.Under the light of these findings, it is known that Transformational leadership characters of the managers in establishments have positive effects on motivation.Keywords: Transformational Leadership, Motivation, Motivation Sources Inventory.