Leaders’ psychological capital and authentic leadership as predictors of employees’ perceptions of fairness

• Autor(a) principal: Hongyi, Chen
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/14586
• topic: Liderança; Equidade; Gestão de recursos humanos; Psychological capital; Authentic leadership; Perceptions of fairness

This research focused on understanding leaders’ psychological capital and authentic leadership as predictors of employees’ perceptions of fairness. In order to achieve this, four research objectives were set.These were: To provide an understanding of psychological capital, authentic leadership and employee perception of fairness, to determine whether there is an impact of a leader’s psychological capital on his/her authentic leadership, to establish the impact of authentic leadership on employee perception of fairness and to make recommendation on how organizational leaders can positively impact employee perception of fairness through authentic leadership. A quantitative research approach was used in addressing these objectives whereby questionnaires were used to collect data from 33 respondents who comprised of managers and employees of different organizations. The collected data was quantitatively analyzed using t the SPSS application, which was instrumental in testing the research hypotheses. Recommendations were also made based on the findings obtained in the research