In Current study author has examined the influence of authentic leadership on organizational affective commitment and to explore that to what extent the followers’ social identification with work unit and personal identification with leaders mediate this relationship. However these hypothesized outcomes gained very little attention in empirical studies. The quantitative methodology used in this study incorporates cross sectional survey method with sample size is (N=250). Sample was selected from Pakistani local and foreign banks’ employees who work under the branch manager. Author found a positive relationship between authentic leadership and organizational affective commitment and both personal identification with leader and social identification with work unit significantly mediate the afore-mentioned relationship. Structural equation model was used for data analysis and hypothesis testing.
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