Przywództwo autentyczne a zaangażowanie w pracę - porównanie sektora publicznego z sektorem prywatnym
Authentic leadership and commitment to the work – comparative analysis of the public and private sector

Summary/Abstract: Work commitment is a desired condition due to its impact on the quality of work, organizational success as well as on satisfactionof employees. First observed in the private sector it pertains also to the public sector. Theory of management in publicsector sometimes uses business management concepts. One of them is leadership. Thus, we decided to investigate the impact ofleadership on employee engagement in the public sector and compare it to that in the private sector.We have chosen the theory of authentic leadership and studied work commitment manifesting itself in three elements: vigor,dedication to work and preoccupation with work. Surveys were conducted on a group of 786 people, of whom 117 represented thepublic sector. Their results have proved that work commitment did not differ depending on the sector in which the respondents worked.However, there were significant differences in the relationship between authentic leadership of superiors and work commitment.In the studied population leadership had a strong impact on all components of work commitment. However, in the publicsector, we have noticed the influence of authentic leadership only on vigor – one of the three components of work commitment.This influence was smaller than among the sectors.That leads to the conclusion that the theory of authentic leadership does not help much in creating employee commitmentin the public sector. Thus, one needs to search for additional factors that build commitment and develop leadership theory inpublic sector.

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