The relationship of psychometric test results to be applied to public administrators and employee motivation: A review in public institutions in Nevşehir

Relationship between manager and employee; organizations to achieve their goals and objectives, such as employee productivity and performance or motivation, etc. It is among the important research topics in management sciences. In the Public Administration literature, there are many studies examining the effects of manager and leader attitudes on employees in different contexts. In order for the management activities to continue as desired, the employee's compliance with the organization, performance, productivity and motivation should be taken into account by the administration. The ability of the manager, who knows the employee, knows his wishes and desires, to direct the employee to the goals of the organization and to get efficiency by keeping his motivation high, together with the quality and success of the work produced, is closely related to the manager's managerial competence, empathy skill, which is one of his communicative and social skills. The manager, who knows the employee and understands his wishes and needs correctly, can easily find a way to motivate the employee. For this reason, the reason for the study can be expressed as the need to reveal the relationship between the level of empathy that the manager should have and the motivation of the employee in order to increase the motivation of an employee who is understood and feels understood in public institutions. This study deals with the relationship between the manager and the employee in the public sector in the center of the concepts of empathy and motivation; thinks that increasing employee motivation is related to the level of empathy of the manager and examines the relationship between these concepts. Therefore, it also emphasizes the necessity of conducting psychometric tests on candidate managers in terms of recruitment criteria during the pre-appointment of managers to the public. In the study, the scientific basis of the candidate managers to be appointed to the public is subjected to psychometric tests such as the empathy test, and the way is cleared to be determined as a legal criterion. On the other hand, this study sheds light on other studies to reveal the manager-employee relationship in terms of psychosocial skills by making other psychometric measurements to managers. In this sense, the effect of measurable psychological states and qualities of the manager or employee such as basic drive level, interpersonal communication skill level, paranoia level, depression level, obsessive-compulsive level, anxiety state, stress level and personality type on healthy and desired management and employee motivation, It is expected to be the basis of researches examining the effects on many variables such as performance, organizational commitment, and sense of belonging. The hypotheses of this research, which is carried out in public institutions and organizations with a central organization at the ministry level under Nevşehir Governorship, are accepted as a result of statistical analyzes (correlation analysis and regression analysis) made in the SPSS 25.0 package program in accordance with the distribution of data. The "Empathy Level Determination Scale" developed by Lawrence et al. (2004) and adapted to Turkish by Kaya and Çolakoğlu (2015) and developed by Topaçlı (2022), Kuvaas (2006) and Yücel Batmaz and Gürer (2016) were used as data collection tools in the research. and the adapted "Motivation Scale" was used. As a result of the research, a strong, significant and positive relationship was determined between the level of manager empathy and employee motivation, and it was determined that the level of manager empathy was an important predictor and predictor of employee motivation.