Driving Innovation through Authentic Leadership: An Empirical Study of Emotional-Management Skills and Employee Performance

The purpose of this study is to look into the effects of Authentic Leadership on innovation and emotional-management skills. The findings will show that Leadership and Innovation have a significant impact on corporate performance. It will also be revealed that leadership has impact on innovation capabilities, which affects company performance. In this study, convenience sampling technique is used. Population selected for this study is employees of the automobiles companies in South Punjab of Pakistan is unknown. Employees are the ones who are directly linked with the customers. As the population is very large and unknown, the sample size would be 350 by using sample size estimation. Unit of analysis is the employees working in automobiles companies in South Punjab. The findings of this study indicate that emotional-management skills and Leadership have an impact on and can predict workers' innovative work habits. Additionally, there is a favorable relationship between emotional-management skills and innovative skills as well as between Leadership and these traits.