The effect of authentic leadership on employee trust and employee engagement

By Dan-Shang Wang, Chia-Chun Hsieh. 2013

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In this study we examined the effect of authentic leadership on employee engagement through employee trust. We collected data from 386 employees in the top 1,000 manufacturing companies and the top 500 service companies in Taiwan. Hierarchical multiple regression was employed to test the hypotheses. The results showed that both supervisors’ consistency between words and actions as well as their moral perceptions are positively related to employee engagement, while only supervisors’ consistency between words and actions is positively related to employee trust. Moreover, employee trust was shown to be positively related to employee engagement. Finally, employee trust was found to have a partial mediating effect between authentic leadership and employee engagement.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Citations in the corpus

The human side of leadership: Inspirational leadership effects on follower characteristics and happiness at work (HAW) (2020, background): “Leadership styles, such as transformational or authentic leadership, reveal direct effects on positive attitudes (Tims et al., 2011; Wang & Hsieh, 2013).”
Effective Employee Engagement in the Workplace (2017, background): “Many organizations perceive the importance of employee engagement; however, the issue of how to increase the level of employee engagement is not warranted (Wang & Chia-Chun, 2013).”
Working from home during the corona pandemic: Investigating the role of authentic leadership, psychological capital, and gender on employee performance (2021, background): “This study confirmed the effect of Authentic Leadership on employees’ PsyCap (Amunkete & Rothmann, 2015; Kong et al., 2018) and performance (Walumbwa et al., 2008, 2010; Wang & Hsieh, 2013; Wang et al., 2014).”
The effects of leadership satisfaction on employee engagement, loyalty, and retention in the hospitality industry (2019, result): “The relationship between types of leadership style and employee engagement has also been examined, with results indicating that authentic leadership (i.e., displaying consistency between words and actions) had a positive effect on employee engagement (Wang & Hsieh, 2013).”
Authentic leadership extends beyond work: A multilevel model of work-family conflict and enrichment (2017, background): “Authentic leaders encourage followers’ authenticity (Leroy et al., 2015), build stable, trusting relationships (Clapp-Smith et al., 2009; Wang & Hsieh, 2013), and provide followers with a sense of empowerment (Laschinger, Wong, & Grau, 2013).”