Does supervisor-perceived authentic leadership influence employee work engagement through employee-perceived authentic leadership and employee trust?

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 2329-2348

  Hsieh, Chia Chun ^a   Wang, Dan Shang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

employee trust; employee work engagement; employee perceived authentic leadership; multilevel mediation model; supervisor perceived authentic leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938551760     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2015.1025234     Document Type: Article

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