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- Title
Effect of Psychological Empowerment on Authentic Leadership and Affective Commitment Relationship.
- Authors
Yousaf, Attia; Ul Hadi, Noor
- Abstract
This research enriches the knowledge of authentic leadership and responds to questions like; (a) How authentic leadership influences employees affective commitment? (b) How authentic leadership impact psychological empowerment? (c) How psychological empowerment influences affective commitment and does psychological empowerment mediates the association into authentic leadership and affective commitment? In order to comment on these study questions, a survey of 150 managerial level employees was sampled conveniently from Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL). 114 valid responses were analyzed via PROCESS macro. The findings of the research reveal that psychological empowerment mediates the association between authentic leadership and affective commitment. Indicating that, when an authentic leader makes employee psychological empowered, in turn, an employee's level of affective commitment will increase, this leads to fruitful outcomes. This research has practical implications for leaders, human resource managers, employees and policymakers. The study also suggested avenues for future research at the end.
- Subjects
AUTHENTIC leadership; SELF-efficacy; AFFECT (Psychology); ORGANIZATIONAL commitment; HUMAN resources departments
- Publication
Journal of Managerial Sciences, 2020, Vol 14, p109
- ISSN
1992-4364
- Publication type
Article