Abstract

The study examines the impact of authentic leader’s personality on employee voice behavior through a quantitative study. The results, from a sample of 200 subordinate–supervisor dyads from a healthcare organization in Pakistan, provide evidence of a positive relationship for leader authentic personality with direct reports’ ratings of the leaders’ authentic leadership. In addition, authentic leadership was found to influence subordinates’ voice behavior, as rated by subordinates’ immediate supervisors; notably, this relationship was partially mediated by the subordinates’ perceptions of OBSE. Furthermore, leader authentic personality was indirectly related to subordinates’ voice behaviour through the mediating influence of authentic leadership and, in turn, subordinates’ perceptions of Organization-based selfesteem. The findings of this study will make management understand the linkage of an authentic leader’s personality and employee voice behavior.

Authors

1-Muhammad Zia-ur Rehman
Assistant Professor, National Defense University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

2-Atiqa Shahbaz
Research Scholar, National Defense University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

3-Noor Hassan
PhD Fellow,Department of Management Sciences,Yeungnam University, North Gyeongsang, South Korea.

Keywords

Leader Authentic Personality, Authentic Leadership, Organization-Based Self-Esteem (OBSE), Employee Voice Behavior

DOI Number

10.31703/ger.2018(III-II).05

Page Nos

43-54

Volume

III

Issue

II