How authentic leadership impacts on job insecurity: The multiple mediating role of psychological empowerment and psychological capital

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawei Wang ◽  
Wenjing Kan ◽  
Shaotian Qin ◽  
Chaoyue Zhao ◽  
Yuchen Sun ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhihua Xu ◽  
Fu Yang

Although previous research has found that authentic leadership has a negative effect on employee burnout through structural empowerment, lack of psychological empowerment in the research cannot present a complete picture on how authentic leadership influences burnout because employees must experience being psychologically empowered for empowerment to be effective. Drawing on empowerment-related theories, this study integrates the three different perspectives of empowerment (authentic leadership, structural empowerment, and psychological empowerment) to examine their effects on emotional exhaustion, the core component of burnout, at multiple levels of analysis. Using a sample of 378 teachers from 59 primary and secondary schools in China, multilevel structural equation modelling results revealed that: (1) authentic leadership had an indirect effect on psychological empowerment partially through structural empowerment, (2) psychological empowerment played a full mediating role in the relationship between structural empowerment and emotional exhaustion, and (3) structural empowerment and psychological empowerment sequentially mediated the effect of authentic leadership on emotional exhaustion. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Lina Ma ◽  
Fusheng Zhou

We conducted a survey with 554 kindergarten teachers in China to explore the relationship between psychological empowerment and retention intention, along with the mediating role of psychological capital and the moderating role of professional emotion. The results show that psychological empowerment had a positive effect on retention intention through the mediating effect of psychological capital. Additionally, professional emotion significantly moderated the effects of psychological capital on retention intention. Thus, we confirmed that psychological capital mediated the effects of psychological empowerment on retention intention and that professional emotion moderated the second half of this mediation process. The results of our study have theoretical and practical significance for proposing intervention measures to improve the retention intention of kindergarten teachers.


2016 ◽  
pp. 106-133
Author(s):  
Muhammad Junaid Et al.,

The purpose of the study was to find out the relationship between authentic leadership and employee work outcomes i.e. employee’s creativity, affective commitment, innovation and the main contribution in this was to introduce the mediating mechanism (psychological empowerment) through which authentic leadership is related to different outcomes. A quantitative approach was used to test the hypothesis and data was collected through standardized questionnaires from different employees of the telecom sector in Peshawar. A total number of respondents in this study was 186. This study shows a significant relationship between authentic leadership and creativity and the insignificant relationship between authentic leadership with affective commitment and innovation, thus hypotheses 1 supported and hypotheses 2 and 3 was not supported. This study aims that authentic leadership has a strong and significant correlation with employee’s creativity but the insignificant correlation with affective commitment and innovation. Psychological empowerment has also a strong positive and significant correlation with creativity, affective commitment, and innovation. The present study also reveals that there is a strong and significant relationship between authentic leadership and psychological empowerment. The study found that psychological empowerment significantly mediates the relationship between authentic leadership, creativity, and innovation. Psychological empowerment partially mediates the relationship between authentic leadership with creativity while fully mediates the relationship between authentic leadership and innovation. Psychological empowerment does not mediate the relationship between authentic leadership and affective commitment. Thus hypotheses 6, and hypotheses 8 consider it was supported that psychological empowerment significantly mediates the relationship between authentic leadership and creativity, innovation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
Yosephin Dila Sintka Sekar Palupi ◽  
Nang Among Budiadi ◽  
Sugiyarmasto . ◽  
Ariefah Yulandari

This study aims to examine the mediating role of pshychological capital in the rlationship between authentic leadership and organizational commitment. Organizational commitment is an important factor in improving hospital performance. Commitment as a type of pshchological bond that reflects the dedication and responbility of employees to the work targets and goals of the hospital so that when organizational commitment is built the hospital will lead to various beneficial results. Data was obtained through distributing questionnaires to employees who worked at Surakarta Regional Mental Hospital and PKU Muhammadiyah Surakarta Hospital. The research sample used amounted to 159. The sampling technique used in this study was the Cluster Sampling technique. Hypothesis testing is done using regression analysis with mediating variables. The results in this study indicate that authentic leadership has a positive and significant effect on organizational commitment, authentic leadership has a positive and significant effect on psychological capital, psychological capital has a positive and significant effect on organizational commitment. This means psychological capital mediates the relationship between authentic leadership and psychological capital


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