“Impact of Authentic leadership on affective commitment to change with the moderating effect of leader’s commitment to change—A study on Pakistan’s private sector”
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Date
2019
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UMT.Lahore
Abstract
Purpose- The study aims to make contribution to existing Leadership literature, by
providing an insight about Authentic Leadership components (self-awareness, relational
transparency, moral perspective and balanced processing) encourages follower’s affective
commitment to change and the role of leader’s own affective commitment to change as a
moderator between the relationships.
Design/methodology/approach- The study is based on cross-sectional research design, in
which the unit of data sourcing includes employees from (bottom and middle management
level), a sample size of 148 members from private sector organizations is used for analysis.
The data assessed ratings about Authentic Leadership, Follower’s affective commitment to
change and Leader’s affective commitment to change. A quantitative approach is used in
this study.
Findings- Results for direct effect of authentic leadership behaviors finds support for
significant constructive effect of self-awareness, internalized moral perspective and
balanced processing on follower’s affective commitment to change moreover, except for
self-awareness, results significantly supported the moderation effect of Leaders affective
commitment i.e. the impact of these authentic leadership behaviors will be high if leaders
affective commitment to change is high.
Research limitations/implications- With relatively small sample size of 148 respondents
results cannot be generalized, future researchers should go for a longitudinal research
design with more sample size. Future researchers can add cultural dimensions in the model
as cultural difference can influence commitment to change, a comparison between affective and normative commitment to change with cultural context can also be deployed in future
research models by future researchers.
Practical Implications- the study suggests the importance of authentic leadership behaviors
(self-awareness, moral perspective and balanced processing) for managers in order to
develop high level affective commitment to change amongst the followers and also that
leaders own affective commitment can assist and generate profound results hence managers
should look for new methodologies through which their own commitment to change can
be elevated.