MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY ---------- HOANG THI KIM QUY THE EFFECTS OF AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP ON SYMMETRICAL INTERNAL COMMUNICATION AND EMPLOYEE-ORGANIZATION RELATIONSHIPS MASTER OF BUSINESS Ho Chi Minh City - 2017 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY ---------- HOANG THI KIM QUY THE EFFECTS OF AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP ON SYMMETRICAL INTERNAL COMMUNICATION AND EMPLOYEE-ORGANIZATION RELATIONSHIPS Major: Business Administration (Research) ID: 60340102 MASTER OF BUSINESS SUPERVISOR: DR. TRAN MAI DONG Ho Chi Minh City – 2017 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com ACKNOWLEDGE First of all, I would like to express my gratefulness to Dr. Tran Mai Dong for his intensive support, introduction, valuable suggestions as well as his encouragement over six months of doing my research. His professional knowledge and his experiences inspire me a lot and help me get more motivation to conduct and complete my study.
Additionally, I would like to give a sincere thank to all my friends, who are working for aviation organizations in Ho Chi Minh city for their intensive support when I collected the data. I am so grateful to all of you. Last but not least, my warm thanks to my family who always stood by me, support for me to complete this study. Thank you for giving me your strength.
I love all of you! TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com ABSTRACT The definition of leadership and the role of effective leadership in organizations has been investigated by many scholars over the world. However, the perception of leadership in Viet Nam remains limited. Obviously, Vietnamese leaders have not identified the important role of applying an effective leadership style in enhancing organizational performance. Moreover, they have not had a sufficient perception of employee’s importance and focused on how to maintain a long-term relationship with their subordinates.
Thus, a further research need to conduct to prove the crucial role of leadership in organizations and how the leadership style affects the company performance in terms of the quality of employee-organization relationships. The purpose of this current study is to examine empirically the impacts of authentic leadership on symmetrical internal communication and employee- organization relationships. This research was conducted through a two-phase study, including the qualitative study and main quantitative research. After interviewing deeply with six participants, who come from different positions with various backgrounds in a wide range of aviation organizations to get their opinions about research problems and modification for scale items, a final single survey was achieved.
Then, this survey was delivered to Vietnamese staffs from the aviation industry in Vietnam. The data were collected based on a sample size of 140 participants by the convenient sampling technique. Moreover, structural equation modeling (SEM) indicated that authentic leadership positively affects EORs both directly and indirectly, through symmetrical internal communication. Also, the study provides theoretical and practical implications as well as suggested directions for future research.
On the other hand, some limitations were mentioned in this study. Keywords: Leadership, Authentic leadership, Symmetrical internal communication, Employee-organization relationships. TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGE ABSTRACT TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION. Research background and research problem.
Scope and subject of the study.6 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW. Symmetrical internal communication (SIC). Employee – organization relationships (EORs) .17 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail. Authentic leadership and symmetrical internal communication.
Authentic leadership and employee-organization relationships. Symmetrical communication and employee-organization relationships. Authentic leadership scale (AL). Symmetrical internal communication (SIC).
Employee-organization relationships (EORs). Data analysis technique. Modified scale items. Main quantitative study.
Data analysis techniques .36 CHAPTER 4: DATA ANALYSIS .37 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail. Evaluate the measurement by CFA. CFA result of Authentic leadership. CFA result of Symmetrical internal communication.
CFA result for Employee-organization relationships. The saturated model. Results of testing the hypotheses .49 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS, IMPLICATIONS AND LIMITATIONS. Implication of research findings.
Limitations and directions for further research. Directions for future research .1: Review of definitions of authentic leaders and authentic leadership .