Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government

Abstract

The aim of our research paper was to find the effect of authentic leadership on work
engagement. It also examined the role of leader competency as a moderator between the
relationship of authentic leader and work engagement. The data were collected from 55
employees of industrial and service sector of Lahore. Statistical tools were used to identifying
the results. We conducted reliability, regression and correlation analysis. The result suggests that
there was significant direct relationship of authentic leader and work engagement. The
hypothesis predicted that authentic leadership style increases the followers work engagement.
Whereas, there was no impact of leader competency on the relationship between authentic
leadership and work engagement.