Authentic leadership influence on work engagement of remote and non-remote employees through the mediating effect of work-family balance

• Autor(a) principal: Vicente, Catarina Filipa de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/23918
• topic: Authentic leadership; Work engagement; Work-family balance; Remote work; Liderança autêntica; Envolvimento no trabalho; Trabalho remoto; Equilíbrio trabalho-família

Authentic leadership has been increasingly acquiring the interest of several empirical studies, and the pandemic situation brought by COVID-19 came to reinforce the importance that leadership might have for employees’ engagement. The present research aimed to investigate if the perception of authentic leadership by employees in remote and non-remote is related with their work engagement, and if the work-family balance contributes to explain that association. To analyse the relationship between the variables, an online survey to employees of the consultancy sector was applied. This sector was selected because the growing concern of their organizations with leadership and work-family balance. A sample of 201 participants was obtained. The results indicate that authentic leadership is positively associated with work engagement, being that relationship mediated by work-family balance. However, the moderation by the job situation was not verified, which means that the positive effect of authentic leadership on the ability to balance professional and family needs is independent of the remote or non-remote situation of the employees. The present dissertation contributes for the development of literature relative to the relationship between authentic leadership and employees’ work engagement, through the perception of work-family balance. The results evidence the benefit of the promotion of this leadership style among organizations of the consultancy sector.