Enhancing Organizational Voice through Authentic Leadership "Approach to interactions of leader-follower"

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The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship of Authentic Leadership and Organizational Voice. The population of the study was all of the staff ministry of Roads and Urban Development Tehran (N: 400). Using simple random sampling 169 persons selected and Authentic Leadership Questionnaire and organizational voice have responded. Data analysis showed that Authentic Leadership and its components was a significant positive correlation with organizational voice and its dimensions (p  .01). Among the Authentic Leadership dimensions except self-awareness, other aspects had meaningful impact on organizational voice. Results also showed that were significantly different between employee organizational voice with regard gender and work experience (p  .05). These results suggest that administrators can by emphasizing the Moral Perspective, Relational Transparency, and Balanced Processing of information, to provide the expression of ideas and benefit from all the capabilities staff.

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Journal of Public Administration
Volume 7, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
January 2016
Pages 865-882

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