THE EFFECT OF EMOTIONAL LABOUR IN ETHICAL LEADERS ON WORKAHOLISM

A Leader, as a factor affecting stakeholders inside and outside the organization, is someone who controls all the behaviors and who is imitated and observed by the members of the organization. Ethical behavior set of the leader display his or her ethical attitudes, and he or she will be forced to display proactive efforts. In many definitions, workaholism is described as a need to work continuously in a compulsive and uncontrollable way. The two elements that trigger workaholism is individual’s willingness to overwork and unmanageable inner desires to work continuously. As the excess of working period may be evaluated as a criterion, there may also be underlying factors such as economic worries and promotion. The important thing here is that employees with inner motivation to work and contextual performance needn’t be confused with those who have inner pressure even if they don’t want to work. Emotional integrity is an important factor affecting the behavior set of employees in the work environment. An employee developing emotions that are compatible with the organizational climate and culture thrives not to stay far from the social environment. For that reason, he or she develops emotion management in the long term. Emotional management efforts made by employees paves the way for the decrease in organizational conflicts and aggression and makes it possible for the organizational conformity to develop. In their studies, in which they described ethical leadership, Brown et al. (2005) attracting attention to the ethical scandals including governmental bodies, companies, academic world and even non-profit institutions emphasized that ethical leadership is becoming more and more important. The reason for this is the display of appropriate behavior and attitude, communication and the need for decision making in personal behaviors and mutual relation in a normative sense. Ethical leaders can be counted on to do the right thing”, and they demonstrate “high standards of ethical and moral conduct”. Emotion that is normally abstract and a characteristic of an individual, today as an economic asset, it is perceived as a concrete product. “Emotional Labor” in the work environment is regarded as various service activities and an important combination of various occupations. Evaluated together with emotion and labor, this concept is given a lot of importance in the field of organizational behavior, which can be explained as “the impression that a person made in his or her inner world related to his or her work process that he or she consciously created. The term