With the world economy s unstable growth and the exposure of the scandal of the economy, the concept of authentic leadership has begun to be concerned by people. A series of food safety scandals in China has brought great challenges to the integrity o...
With the world economy s unstable growth and the exposure of the scandal of the economy, the concept of authentic leadership has begun to be concerned by people. A series of food safety scandals in China has brought great challenges to the integrity of Chinese enterprises. Managers as the core of enterprise has been placed great expectations for leading people to get rid of these unstable and low trust difficulties.
At the same time, the high rate of social turnover is also a major problem in recent years to haunt the community. High turnover rate has brought a lot of obstacles to the enterprise development, such as the low efficiency of enterprises, the increase of unnecessary cost expenses, the decrease of the internal cohesion, the increase of the pressure of the organization and the members. All of these imply the necessity to make a study to solve these problems. Most of the influencing factors of turnover rate were mainly from the attitude variables such as job satisfaction. But it also highly related to the behavior and attitude of the superior, the interaction with superior and the interaction with coworkers. Therefore, this paper mainly studies the impact of the higher level of authentic leadership on employee turnover tendency. And it also made sense of the mediating effect that the leader-member exchange made in the relationship between authentic leadership and turnover tendency.
In this article, we use the questionnaire survey method, and the targets are the employees who work in the enterprises and government in China. The samples are mainly from Jilin, Beijing, Xiamen, and Shanghai. We recovered a total of 143 questionnaires. This article uses SPSS to carry on the empirical analysis. The results of the research were, 1) the authentic leadership and its 4 dimensions can effectively reduce the turnover tendency. 2) High level of leader-member exchange will effectively reduce the turnover tendency. 3) Authentic leadership is positively related to the leader-member exchange. 4) Leader-member exchange has a mediating effect on the relationship between authentic leadership and turnover tendency.