Authentic Leadership and Improved Individual Performance: Affective Commitment and Individual Creativity’s Sequential Mediation

Frontiers in Psychology

Ana Patrícia Duarte¹  Neuza Ribeiro²  Daniel Roque Gomes³  Ana Suzete Semedo⁴ 

[1] Business Research Unit, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal;Center for Applied Research in Management, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Leiria, Portugal;Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal;NOVA Institute of Communication, University NOVA, Lisbon, Portugal;School of Management, Hospitality and Tourism, University of the Algarve, Portimão, Portugal;Center for Business and Economics Research, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal;

关键词: authentic leadership;    affective commitment;    individual creativity;    individual performance;    sequential mediation model;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.675749

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Authentic leadership has become increasingly important in the literature, attracting the attention of many scholars in the last decade. This study adopted an employee-centered perspective to guide its examination of the relationship between authentic leadership and individual performance and investigation of the sequential mediation of employees’ affective commitment and individual creativity. An analysis was conducted of data collected from 214 employees working in different business sectors. The results reveal a statistically significant positive relationship between authentic leadership and employees’ workplace performance, which are both directly connected and indirectly linked through the two proposed psychosocial mechanisms. The findings thus indicate that authentic leadership reinforces workers’ emotional connection with their organizations, thereby increasing their individual creativity and, subsequently, promoting better on-the-job performance. This study presents new and significant results since, on the one hand, it relied on a sequential mediation analysis of variables and, on the other hand, integrated the four main constructs into a single model. The proposed model displays the chain of effects between authentic leadership, affective commitment, individual creativity, and employee workplace performance. Implications for organizational management are discussed.

【 授权许可】

CC BY