Authentic leadership and employee engagement: The role of employee well-being

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE:To understand how perceived authentic leadership translates into work engagement, this study hypothesize that perceived authentic leadership facilitates positive conditions of well-being, which in turn predict employee work engagement. This study asserts that each of the three m...

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Main Authors: Koon, Vui Yee*, Ho, Tsu Sin
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Language:English
Published: IOS Press 2021
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description BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE:To understand how perceived authentic leadership translates into work engagement, this study hypothesize that perceived authentic leadership facilitates positive conditions of well-being, which in turn predict employee work engagement. This study asserts that each of the three mediating paths comprising life, workplace, and psychological well-being, is expected to mediate the relationship based on the conservation of resources (COR) theory and relational perspective. METHODOLOGY:Data were collected from the two-wave survey of 150 full-time employees and analyzed using the PROCESS macro in SPSS. An additional analysis to identify well-being sentiment was conducted using NodeXL with Twitter data. RESULTS:The results indicated only workplace well-being has a mediational effect between perceived authentic leadership and work engagement. The additional analysis found that workplace well-being is the central tenet of interaction between people in social media. CONCLUSIONS:These findings demonstrate the importance of workplace well-being in promoting work engagement.
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spelling sunway-16952021-03-25T06:36:55Z http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/1695/ Authentic leadership and employee engagement: The role of employee well-being Koon, Vui Yee* Ho, Tsu Sin HD28 Management. Industrial Management BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE:To understand how perceived authentic leadership translates into work engagement, this study hypothesize that perceived authentic leadership facilitates positive conditions of well-being, which in turn predict employee work engagement. This study asserts that each of the three mediating paths comprising life, workplace, and psychological well-being, is expected to mediate the relationship based on the conservation of resources (COR) theory and relational perspective. METHODOLOGY:Data were collected from the two-wave survey of 150 full-time employees and analyzed using the PROCESS macro in SPSS. An additional analysis to identify well-being sentiment was conducted using NodeXL with Twitter data. RESULTS:The results indicated only workplace well-being has a mediational effect between perceived authentic leadership and work engagement. The additional analysis found that workplace well-being is the central tenet of interaction between people in social media. CONCLUSIONS:These findings demonstrate the importance of workplace well-being in promoting work engagement. IOS Press 2021-02 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_nc_4 http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/1695/1/Koon%20Vui%20Yee%20Authentic%20leaders.pdf Koon, Vui Yee* and Ho, Tsu Sin (2021) Authentic leadership and employee engagement: The role of employee well-being. Human Systems Management, 40 (1). pp. 81-92. ISSN 0167-2533 http://doi.org/10.3233/HSM-200943 doi:10.3233/HSM-200943
spellingShingle HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Koon, Vui Yee*
Ho, Tsu Sin
Authentic leadership and employee engagement: The role of employee well-being
title Authentic leadership and employee engagement: The role of employee well-being
title_full Authentic leadership and employee engagement: The role of employee well-being
title_fullStr Authentic leadership and employee engagement: The role of employee well-being
title_full_unstemmed Authentic leadership and employee engagement: The role of employee well-being
title_short Authentic leadership and employee engagement: The role of employee well-being
title_sort authentic leadership and employee engagement: the role of employee well-being
topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
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