Multi-Level Analysis of Authentic Leadership from a Turkish Consruction Engineers Perspective

• Authors: Semra Özkan , Adnan Ceylan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Authentic leaders are leaders who when called upon by the hand of fate, will be the ones who take a stand that changes the course of history for others, be they organizations, departments or just other individuals (May, Chan, Hodges & Avolio, 2003). That’s the answer of why authentic leadership? In this study we explore authentic leadership in Turkey from a multilevel perspective. We used the authentic leadership measure developed by Walumbwa, Avolio, Gardner, Wernsing and Peterson in 2008. We also tested the generalizability and validity of the AL measure in a different cultural context.

Keywords

EN

Authentic leadership; affective organizational commitment; multi-level analysis; HLM

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: South East European Journal of Economics and Business
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 101-114

Dates

published

2012-11-01

online

2013-03-09

Contributors

author

Semra Özkan

• Department of Business Administration, Gebze Institute of High Technology, Turkey

author

Adnan Ceylan

• Department of Business Administration, Gebze Institute of High Technology, Turkey

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10033-012-0018-2