Abstract: The study was undertaken to evaluate the impacts of authentic leadership on employee's organisational citizenship behaviours. Authentic leadership has been always in limelight among various researchers due to its positive impact on employees and the overall impact on organisational performance. In today's competitive organisation culture were an employee's voluntary behaviour that exceeds his /her formal responsibility has become very important for organisational success. Leadership plays a vital role in nurturing and boosting employee's attitude and behaviours in workplace [2]. Research related to authentic leadership reveals that it plays a vital role in enhancing the employee's citizenship behaviours [2]. The study clearly explains how authentic leadership influences Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) thereby improving the organisational performance. Authentic leadership predicts employees OCB when these behaviours are interpersonal and directed towards other people. These have practical implications on HRM activities in the organisations like selection process and also while implementing training programs for top executives
Key Words : Authentic Leadership, Organisational Citizenship Behaviour, HRM
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