Relationships between perception of employee empowerment and transformational leadership: A research in public institution

From past to present, there have been quick changes in management subject as every aspects of the life. Together with these changes, new terms have been derived in management, and the importance of these new terms? developing application of areas the importance has increased.With this reputation; since ancient times on the importance of the concept of leadership as a new approach to leadership, which has considered the concepts of empowerment are the subject of our research.Relationships between Perception of Employee Empowerment and Transformational Leadership: a Research in Public Institution consists of four parts. In the first two parts of our research, literature browsing was made about the employee empowerment and leadership terms, and theoretical information was given about these terms. In the third part, a general evaluation was made between the leadership approaches and employee empowerment applications. After that, modern leadership approaches with the transformational leadership approach is to measure the relationship between empowerment practices. In order to be able to make a determination, a management of a governmental establishment in Istanbul city, the data was accumulated with the way of survey and the statistical analyses was made.It is known that the leadership in management and applications of employee empowerment are less applicable in governmental establishments. The reasons of these are hierarchical structures of governmental establishments and the different sides from the private sector as an activity subject can be thought.The purpose of the research is to measure the personal empowerment of employers of governmental establishment, and is to evaluate what level of, as a new leadership approach, the transformational leadership characteristics of director / administrator.To conclude, with the increase in the level of education, positively affected the perception of empowerment practices, and the director who is unit manager in the governmental establishment has owned the transformational leadership approaches, and being maintained the applications about the personal empowerment has been concluded.Key words:1. Empowerment2. Employee Empowerment3. Leadership4. Transformational Leadership5. Leadership Approaches