Sustainable Leadership: Example of Bursa Textile Sector

Abstract

Sustainability means creating economic, environmental, and social growth not only in line with today’s needs but also by taking steps towards the future while considering the past. In the organizational context, sustainability means ensuring that internal and external stakeholders of the organization benefit from the values created, and also ensuring that the organizational policies and strategies are ethical. In this context, leaders who can achieve this are urgently needed. In this frame, the aim of this study is to investigate the perceptions and attitudes of textile sector employees towards sustainability in relation to their organizational leaders. As data collection tool, a survey form consisting of demographic questions and the “Sustainable Leadership Scale”, developed by McCann and Holt (2011) was prepared and delivered to the white collar employees of textile sector in Demitaş Organized Industry Zone (DOSAB) participants as both hard copies and via e-mail. The gathered data were analyzed in the SPSS 22.0 package program. The findings show that, there is a statistically significant difference (p <0.05) between gender and age characteristics and culture and human resources dimension and income characteristic and both dimensions.