INFLUENCE OF AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP ON ORGANIZATIONAL TRUST: THE MEDIATORY ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT

Authors

  • Emmanuel Ejiroghene Aruoren (Ph.D) Senior Lecturer, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria
  • Emmanuel Mitaire Tarurhor (Ph.D) Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51594/ijmer.v5i1.432

Abstract

Prior studies indicate that a leaders’ authenticity has a positive effect on organizational trust (OT). However, the place of organizational commitment (OC) in this relationship has not been well established. This study assesses the role played by OC as a mediator on the nexus between authentic leadership (AL) and OT. Participants were drawn from Local Government Council employees in three states in Southern Nigeria. A structured questionnaire was administered to three hundred and twenty-eight respondents selected using a purposive sampling technique. Structural equation modeling results indicate that OT was positive and significantly related to AL and OC respectively. Also, AL was positive and significantly related to OC. Furthermore, OC partially mediates the relationship linking AL and OT. The study recommends that organizational leadership should develop a high level of trust and commitment among organizational members, as this has serious implications for growth and productivity in today’s organizations. In terms of building theories, the study suggests that mediators like OC be added to new theories.

Keywords: Organization, Relationship, Growth, Exploratory Factor Analysis, Path Diagram, Structural Equation Model.

Published

2023-01-15

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2023)

Section

Articles

Copyright (c) 2023 Emmanuel Ejiroghene Aruoren (Ph.D) , Emmanuel Mitaire Tarurhor (Ph.D)

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Fair East Publishing has chosen to apply for the Creative Common Attribution Noncommercial 4.0 Licence (CC BY) license on our published work. Authors who wish to publish their manuscript in our journal agree on the following terms:
1. Authors retain the copyright and grant us (Fair East Publishing and its subsidiary journals) the right for first publication with the work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License which permits others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal. Under this license, author retains the ownership of the copyright of their content, but anyone is allowed to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the contents as long as the original authors and source are cited. No permission is required from the publishers or authors.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (for example, publishing it as a book or submitting it to an institutional repository), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in Fair East Publishing owned journals.
3. We encourage our authors/contributors to post their work online (such as posting it on their website or some institutional repositories) prior to and during the submission process since it produces scholarly exchange and greater and earlier citation of published work.