Authentic leadership and followers' in‐role and extra‐role performance: The mediating role of followers' learning goal orientation
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This study examined whether and why authentic leadership predicts followers' performance. We hypothesized that authentic leadership predicts followers' learning goal orientation (goal to develop and improve), which, in turn, predicts followers' in‐role and (civic virtue) extra‐role performance. A multilevel, multisource, time‐lagged study, conducted in telecommunications companies in Pakistan, among 115 supervisors and 345 reports supported indirect relations between authentic leadership and (1) follower in‐role and (2) extra‐role performance (civic virtue) mediated by followers' learning goal orientation. Practitioner points: Authentic leadership is considered to promote employees' developmental focus through authenticity on the part of the leader (e.g., being aware of one's strengths and weaknesses). We discuss and analyse authentic leadership as an approach that involves managers' modelling of a learning goal orientation to followers. Direct supervisors' authentic leadership was found to predict employees' in‐role and extra‐role (civic virtue) performance because it may model a focus on learning goals in followers. Hence, important organizational outcomes can be improved through authentic leadership.
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Authentic leadership has unique effects on followers' learning goal orientation.
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- Authors
- Mehmood, Q., Hamstra, M. R. W., Nawab, S., & Vriend, T.
- Affiliations
- Capital University of Science and Technology (PK)
- Maastricht School of Management (NL)
- COMSATS University Islamabad (PK)
- University of Groningen (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Mehmood, Qaiser
- Venue
- Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2016-07-23
- Volume
- 89
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 877-883
- ISSN
- 0963-1798 (ISSN-L)
- 2044-8325
- OpenAlex
- W2494689291
- Cited by
- 39
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 6 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 9.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Research Publications (Maastricht University) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Research Publications (Maastricht University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Employee Performance and Leadership
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Leadership and Management in Organizations
- Keywords
- authentic leadership, learning orientation, in-role performance, extra-role performance, civic virtue, follower performance, mediation, supervisor-employee relations, telecommunications company employees
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