THE EFFECT OF AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP ON ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING PROVIDING ORGANIZATION THE ABILITY TO ADAPT QUICKLY AND CONVENIENTLY TO CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES

Abstract

Since the beginning of the 21st century business world and society in general is changing rapidly as never before. The uncertainty of the new competitive environment is dynamic, short-term, uncertain and replacing the natural foundations of the competition.  Organizations have to cope with all pressures and have to find their success path through the increasingly complex environment. Organizational learning is one of the crucial processes that facilitate to adapt quickly and conveniently to changing circumstances and enhance survival chance of the organization. Leaders are expected to encourage organizational learning to attain competitive advantage. Organizational learning and transformation affected by positive behaviors of a leader and leads to affirmative upward spirals on them. Previous research represent that organizational learning is associated with different kinds of leadership styles. However, in literature there is not any encountered relationship between Organizational Learning and Authentic Leadership style. The aim of this study is to provide an understanding of the relationship between Organizational Learning and Authentic Leadership style. This research bears the distinction of being the first study that argues the relationship between Authentic Leadership and Organizational Learning; therefore it is an important contribution to the relevant literature in this area. Study was conducted in private sector organizations that operate in banking and insurance sector. The sample of the study is consisted of 200 white collar employees. The results indicated that Authentic Leadership significantly has influence on Organizational Learning.

 

Keywords

• Authentic leadership,organizational learning

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