THE AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP ROLE REINFORCING STAFF’S WORK-LIFE INTEGRATION: A POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL PERSPECTIVE
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This article presents an issue about an authentic leadership role reinforcing staff’s work and life integration through a positive psychological capital perspective. The authentic leader will create a balance between a life and working of followers through positive psychological capital and work and life integration, which can affect followers’ effective work performance. The authentic leader will be a person who keeps a well-being of an organization via an organizational culture and clearly reflects a staff role for fulfilling a perfect life that is a highest inspiration of a human life in order to highly illustrate a capacity in every role in the life points. Therefore, an organization change for adjusting a norm of work and life integration direction can increase staff’s capacity, from the supports in terms of work tool and environment, which they can control things upon what they demand in their work and life. This can absolutely affect work satisfaction and effectiveness. In addition, this can retain staff in the organization through organizational strategy by using work and life integration, which it can create longer-term results for leaders, followers, and organization.
Keywords: Authentic Leadership, Work-Life Integration, Positive Psychological Capital
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