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Mediating Role of the Positive Psychological Capital on the Relation between the Authentic Leadership Style and Employees’ Work Engagement: An Applied Study on Hospitality Industry

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  • Ozturk Ciftci, Didem

    (Ordu University)

  • Erkanli, Hulya

    (Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University)

Abstract

The most valuable and unique resource that the organizations have under today’s conditions is the human resources. The positive psychology perspective, trying to understand the human resource in all its parts that brings hope, self-efficacy, optimism, and resilience features into the forefront draws attention to utilize this resource in the most effective way. Moreover, the leadership perspectives that discover the positive psychological capital (PsyCap) elements and contribute to the employees’ development becomes more important in the employees’ work engagement. In this context, this study aims at determining the relation between the authentic leadership and employees’ work engagement and mediating role of the PsyCap on this relationship. The study was carried out with 462 employees working at 4 and 5 star hotels in the cities in the Central and Eastern Black Sea regions in Turkey. Validity of the study’s scales was evaluated by explanatory (EFA) and confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) and the relations between the variables that comprise the research design were evaluated by the Structural Equation Model (SEM). Findings reveal that, the authentic leadership has a positive effect on both work engagement and PsyCap and PsyCap has a positive effect on the work engagement. Moreover, it is determined that the PsyCap has a partial mediating role in the authentic leadership’s effect on the work engagement. Bootstrap test results also show that the mediating role of the PsyCap determined is significant. As a result, within the framework of the research variables, it can be stated that authentic leaders affect employees’ work engagement directly with their leadership characteristics and partially by supporting and developing employees’ PsyCap elements.

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  • Ozturk Ciftci, Didem & Erkanli, Hulya, 2020. "Mediating Role of the Positive Psychological Capital on the Relation between the Authentic Leadership Style and Employees’ Work Engagement: An Applied Study on Hospitality Industry," Business and Economics Research Journal, Uludag University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, vol. 11(2), pages 461-478, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:buecrj:0483
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    1. Natalia Sigaeva & Huseyin Arasli & Emel Ozdemir & Guzide Atai & Emel Capkiner, 2022. "In Search of Effective Gen Z Engagement in the Hospitality Industry: Revisiting Issues of Servant and Authentic Leadership," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(20), pages 1-19, October.
    2. Yucheng Zhang & Yongxing Guo & Meng Zhang & Shan Xu & Xin Liu & Alexander Newman, 2022. "Antecedents and outcomes of authentic leadership across culture: A meta-analytic review," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 39(4), pages 1399-1435, December.
    3. Yinan Shan & Tachia Chin & Nomagugu Mutsvene, 2023. "The Varying Effects of Four Components of Employee Psychological Capital on Sustainable-Business-Model Innovation in the New Normal," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(15), pages 1-14, July.
    4. Beena Prakash Nair & T. Prasad & Shreekumar K. Nair, 2022. "Authentic Leadership and Team Members’ Outcomes: A Cross-level and Multi-level Analysis," Management and Labour Studies, XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Business Management & Human Resources, vol. 47(2), pages 165-182, May.

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    Keywords

    Authentic Leadership; Positive Psychological Capital; Positive Organizational Behavior; Work Engagement;
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    JEL classification:

    • D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
    • M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General

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