摘要：Increasing employee performance is one of the significant issues of organizations in today's competitive environment. It is aimed for organizational efficiency, decrease costs, and increase employee motivation while increasing employee performance. Employee performance can be improved through ethical leadership behavior and relationship orientation in businesses. In this study is to determine the relationship between ethical leadership and relationship orientation for employee performance at a university hospital in Turkey. In order to test relations among variables survey was used. Research data was gathered through the implementation of questionnaires to nurses working in different units at university hospitals. Reached 600 nurses and 406 nurses answered our research questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed with SPSS 21 and hypotheses were tested with correlation regression analyses. There was no significant relationship between ethical leadership and ethical leadership sub-dimensions and employee performance. There was a partial effect between relationship orientation and employee performance, with confidence, a positive significant effect between empath's performance, and no effect between shared values and employee performance.
