| In recent years, all kinds of leader dereliction of duty and management malpractice phenomena occur frequently, causing a crisis of confidence in the leader. This phenomenon also made people rethink quality of the leaders’moral influence on the survival and development of the enterprises. Authentic leadership was born against this era background. Unlike other leadership types, the authentic leaders pay more attention to moral quality. Authentic leadership was considered to be the source of other forms of positive leadership. And it has received great attention from academia.On the other hand, employee silence as a kind of negative employee behavior has strong destructive effect. It can reduce the speed of information transmission, which affects the quality of the decisions. This phenomenon decreases employee loyalty and diminishes corporation’s core competencies, which will influence the development of enterprise. Therefore, employee silence becomes a hot topic in the national academic circles in recent years.Based on the literature review and positive organizational behavior perspective theory, we build a theoretical model about authentic leadership, psychological capital, and employee silence as a moderator. The content of this study can be divided into three parts. The first part mainly elaborates the selected topic background, research’s significance, research’s methods and innovation of this paper. We also review and analyze relevant research literature on authentic leadership, psychological capital and employee silence in this section. The second part is empirical research. We not only build the research model, but also put forward the hypothesis of this article. Then, we analyze the dates by SPSS 19.0, to investigate the negative impact of authentic leadership on employee silence and psychological capital’s intermediary role. Last, but not the least important, this section is the research conclusions and suggestions. This part not only summarizes the main conclusions of this paper and puts forward some management suggestions for enterprise managers but also points out the limitations of the research and conducts prospects on future relevant research.This survey focuses on the enterprise staff from Liaoning, Shan Dong, Anhui and other places, receiving 218 available questionnaires. Then, we take advantage of exploratory factor analysis, correlation analysis, hierarchical regression analysis and other statistical methods to test our hypotheses. Main conclusions are as follows: firstly, authentic leadership is one of the most important front variables to restrain employee silence behavior. Authentic leadership behavior is helpful to reduce the occurrence of employee silence, which will promote enterprise activity and recommendations; secondly, the implementation of the authentic leadership helps to enhance the level of employees’ psychological capital; thirdly, psychological capital and employee silence have negative correlation. Employees could effectively reduce silence "with a high level of psychological capital; the fourth, psychological capital was found to partially mediate the relationship between authentic leadership and employee silence. At the end of this paper, we discuss the limitations and further research possibilities of this study. |
