How does Perceived Organizational Support Affect Psychological Capital? The Mediating Role of Authentic Leadership

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Organizacija Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI:10.2478/orga-2021-0006

Mahmut Bilgetürk, Elif Baykal

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Abstract

Abstract Background and Purpose: Authentic leadership, the most noteworthy positive leadership style accepted by positive organizational behavior scholars, is famous for its contributions to psychological capitals. And, in fact, this leadership style can flourish and be experienced more easily in situations where there are supportive organizational conditions. Hence, in this study, we assume that organizational support is an important antecedent for experiencing and displaying authentic leadership. Furthermore, in organizations wherein authentic leadership is practiced, people may assume organizational support comes about thanks to their leaders’s management style, particularly where authentic leadership may shadow the effect of perceived organizational support on the psychological capitals of individuals. So, in our model we proposed that perceived organizational support will have a positive effect on both authentic leadership style and the psychological capitals of individuals. Moreover, authentic leadership will act as a mediator in this relationship. Design/Methodology/Approach: For the related field research we collected data from professionals working in the service sector in Istanbul. Related data have been analysed with structural equation modelling in order to test our hypotheses. Results: Results of this study confirmed our assumptions regarding the positive effects of perceived organizational support on authentic leadership and on four basic dimensions of psychological capital: self-efficacy, optimism, resilience, and hope. Moreover, our results confirmed the statistically significant effect of authentic leadership on psychological capital and partial mediator effect of authentic leadership in the relationship between perceived organizational support and psychological capital. Conclusion: Our results indicate the importance of empowering employees and engaging in authentic leadership behaviour in increasing psychological capitals of employees and psychologically creating a more powerful work-force.

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感知组织支持如何影响心理资本?真实领导的中介作用

摘要背景和目的：真实领导是积极组织行为学界公认的最值得注意的积极领导风格，以其对心理资本的贡献而闻名。事实上，这种领导风格可以蓬勃发展，在有支持性组织条件的情况下更容易体验。因此，在本研究中，我们假设组织支持是体验和展示真实领导力的重要前提。此外，在实行真正领导的组织中，人们可能会认为组织支持是由于领导者的管理风格而产生的，特别是在真正领导可能掩盖感知到的组织支持对个人心理资本的影响的情况下。因此，在我们的模型中，我们提出感知的组织支持将对真实的领导风格和个人的心理资本产生积极影响。此外，真正的领导层将在这种关系中充当调解人。设计/方法/方法：对于相关的实地研究，我们从伊斯坦布尔服务业的专业人员那里收集了数据。为了检验我们的假设，已经用结构方程模型对相关数据进行了分析。结果：本研究的结果证实了我们关于感知组织支持对真实领导力和心理资本四个基本维度的积极影响的假设：自我效能、乐观、韧性和希望。此外，我们的研究结果证实了真实领导对心理资本的统计学显著影响，以及真实领导在感知组织支持和心理资本关系中的部分中介效应。结论：我们的研究结果表明，赋予员工权力和参与真实的领导行为对于增加员工的心理资本和在心理上创造更强大的劳动力具有重要意义。

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Organizacija MANAGEMENT-

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3.50

自引率

15.80%

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Organizacija (Journal of Management, Information Systems and Human Resources) is an interdisciplinary peer reviewed journal that seeks both theoretical and practical papers devoted to managerial aspects of the subject matter indicated in the title. In particular the journal focuses on papers which cover state-of art developments in the subject area of the journal, its implementation and use in the organizational practice. Organizacija is covered by numerous Abstracting & Indexing services, including SCOPUS.