The Role of Authentic Leadership in Job Enrichment and Employee Turnover

Mir, Yosef; Salimi, Samaneh; Panahi, Gholamhasan

doi:10.22111/ijop.2025.52481.1052

The Role of Authentic Leadership in Job Enrichment and Employee Turnover

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Master of Public Management, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran

² Assistant Professor Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran.

10.22111/ijop.2025.52481.1052

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between authentic leadership, job enrichment, and employee turnover among university staff, conducted through a descriptive-correlational research method. The statistical population consisted of all 659 employees of the Islamic Azad University, Zahedan Branch. Using the Krejcie and Morgan (1971) sample size table, a sample of 247 individuals was determined, and simple random sampling was employed. Data were collected using the Authentic Leadership Questionnaire by Walumbwa et al. (2008), the Job Enrichment Questionnaire by Dehghan et al. (2010), and the Employee Turnover Questionnaire by Ghasemkhani (2013). The results indicated a significant relationship between authentic leadership and its dimensions (self-awareness, relational transparency, internalized moral perspective, and balanced processing) with job enrichment and employee turnover. Furthermore, the regression results showed that 78% of the variance in job enrichment and 48% of the variance in employee turnover could be predicted by the authentic leadership variable.

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