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A Multi-level Investigation of Authentic Leadership as an Antecedent of Helping Behavior

verfasst von: Giles Hirst, Fred Walumbwa, Samuel Aryee, Ivan Butarbutar, Chin Jeffery Hui Chen

Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics | Ausgabe 3/2016

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We develop and test a trickle-down model of how authentic leadership at the department level flows down the organizational hierarchy to encourage team leader authentic leadership and consequently, promotes team and individual-level supervisor-directed helping behavior. Analyses of multi-level and multi-source data collected from a total of 487 employees comprising 122 teams, 47 departments, and 4 different working areas of a major public sector organization in Taiwan show that team leaders’ authentic leadership mediates the relationship between departmental authentic leadership and individual-level leader–member exchange (LMX). We also found that intra-team trust completely mediates the influence of team authentic leadership on both team helping behavior and individual-level supervisor-directed helping behavior. Finally, the results reveal that self-concordance mediates the influence of team authentic leadership on individual-level supervisor helping behavior as well as the influence of individual-level LMX on individual-level supervisor-directed helping behavior. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

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Titel: A Multi-level Investigation of Authentic Leadership as an Antecedent of Helping Behavior
verfasst von: Giles Hirst
Fred Walumbwa
Samuel Aryee
Ivan Butarbutar
Chin Jeffery Hui Chen
Publikationsdatum: 22.02.2015
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 3/2016
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-015-2580-x

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