The effect of leadership styles on the motivation of employees: The sample of the officers of the health instittutions in Konya

In an organization, the leader must determine and apply the most suitable leader ship style in order for the success of the organization and motivation of the employees. As well as the reareplenty of suggestions and applications in theory and practice concerning the motivation of the employees, the ideas as tow hich of the leadership styles will be the most efficient vary. From this point of view, in this study it is aimed to measure the effect of leadership styles on the motivation of employees in terms of the state health workers. For this purpose, a questionnaire was conducted on the health personnels working in the state hospitals selected in Konya and the office of secretary general with which those hospitals are affiliated. According to the questionnaire results, the liberal, transformational and practical leadership evaluations of the employees differ with regard to their marital status, charismatic and paternalistic leadership evaluations differ with regard to their duties, and autocratical leadership evaluations differ with regard to their terms of office in the in stitution. The more the democratic, paternalistic, charismatic, liberal, transformational, autocratical and practical leadership levels of the administrators increase, the more the motivation levels of the employees rise. As a result of the examination of the leaderships tyles together with the motivation levels and relations, it is seen that the leadership styles that are the most related with the motivation of the workers are the democratic-participative and paternalistic leadership, and the least related ones are the autocraticand liberal leadership respectively.