Leader Competencies and Employee Well Being: The Mediating Role Of Authentic Leadership.

Abstract

Background: Facing economic developments that affect growing and competing in the business world, businesses will face several challenges that must be faced in a global trade situation: The impact of the continuous threat of international terrorism on the economy, Transition to a global information economy, Aging of the world population, Needs to improve quality and customer service and Efforts to improve the competitiveness of the workforce in each nation. Competence is what a person appears in the workplace every day including behaviors, basic personality traits and skills that are on or off the premises work. The existence of a leader in an organization is not enough to provide the organization in achieving its goals. A more important factor is the capacity of the leaders. Resource management capabilities leadership capacities in management, organization, planning, coordination, updating and monitoring of public institutions. The skills that a leader must possess are: Public capacity of at least seven competencies, namely: self-management capacity, communication management competency, pluralistic management capacity, ethical management capacity, team management competency, cultural diversity management competency and change management competency. The object of this research is PT Telkom Surabaya.

Aim: the purpose of this study is to determine and analyze: the effect of leader competence on authentic leadership, the effect of employee welfare on authentic leadership, leader competence on the workplace environment, employee welfare on the workplace environment, authentic leadership on the workplace environment. Competence of leaders through authentic leadership and employee welfare in the work environment through authentic leadership.

Method: the method used in this study using SEM-PLS

Results: the results in this study include: leader competence has a positive and significant effect on authentic leadership, employee welfare has a positive and significant effect on authentic leadership, leader competence has a positive and significant effect on the workplace environment, employee welfare has a positive and significant effect on the work environment

Conclusion: all exogenous variables have an effect on endogenous variables

Keywords: Leader Competencies, Employee Well Being, Authentic Leadership and Workplace Environment