EFFECT OF AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP ON POLICE EMPLOYEES’ EXPERIENCES; A MEDIATION ANALYSIS OF WORKPLACE BULLYING

Abstract

The objective of this research is to identify the effect of authentic leadership on police employee’s experiences and workplace bullying. Workplace bullying is acting as mediating variable, researchers and practitioners both recognized authentic leadership as most favorable leadership style to get useful and desirable organizational outcomes. Many researches have been accompanied to know impact of authentic leadership on bullying in banking, business and medical sectors, but the need of time was to conduct this research in police department. For our sample we took 400 employees from the  police department to check impression of authentic leadership on bullying, we used the survey method to collect the data. This paper employed a cross section survey designed with 400 police employees who has less than 5 years of practices experience. Result indicates that authentic leadership is significantly related with all variables and strongly correlated with bullying r=-.39 and job satisfaction r = .45. So, job turnover intention and job satisfaction were significantly related to workplace bullying and burnout. Authentic leadership has negative effect on workplace bullying employees’ experiences b=-.37, consequently, positive relation with emotional exhaustion b=.49. So work place bullying have a direct negative relation with job satisfaction b=-.25 and indirect negative relation through emotional exhaustion.