Impact of Authentic Leadership on Employee Job Performance and Employee Turnover Intentions
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2022-06-24
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UMT.Lahore
Abstract
The present study aims to investigate the impact of authentic leadership on employee job
performance and turnover intention with the mediating effect of work engagement and
moderating effect of core self-evaluation (CSE) to identify how these variables effect
employees in IT sector of Pakistan.
Data was collected from 350 participants belonging to different IT companies of Lahore
through questionnaire. The results suggested that authentic leadership has positive impact
on job performance while negatively impact the turnover intention of employees.
Moreover, work engagement mediates the relationship between authentic leadership and
job performance as well as employee’s turnover intention. Additionally, the empirical
results revealed that CSE inversely moderates the relationship between authentic
leadership and work engagement.
Using JD-R model with an exclusive moderated mediation compact framework, this
research opens new opportunities for theoretical advancement and expand pragmatically
vital concept in the field of management and organizational behavior. Furthermore, this
research envisions management practitioners to impart the authentic behavior in
organizational leadership to retain their employees and get optimal level of performance.
This study has cross sectional design that may compel inferring conclusions relating to
causality. Future research can replicate this framework in different sectors, cultures and
countries for the generalizability of the results.