The Impact of Authentic Leadership on Organizational Learning Capacity

Authentic leaders' impact on organizational learning capacity has rarely been addressed in leadership context. We concentrated on the concept of leadership style affect leaders' followers and firm. In this study, we empirically examined how authentic leadership has an effect on organizational learning capacity which has dimensions of system orientation, climate for learning orientation, knowledge acquisition, and utilization orientation, and information sharing and dissemination orientation. A survey is conducted with 235 administrators, academic members, prelectors, teachers and administrative staff working in Kocaeli and Istanbul schools and universities. The acquired data are analyzed with SPSS software to perform regression analyses. As a result, it revealed that authentic leadership behaviors have positive impact on the knowledge acquisition and utilization orientation, and information sharing and dissemination orientation. It also has partially positive impact on systems orientation and climate for learning orientation. Our findings are in line with leadership and organizational learning literature.