RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRUST IN ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: ROLES PLAYED BY WORK AND INDIVIDUAL FACTORS

Olufemi A. Lawal ()
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Olufemi A. Lawal: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Lagos State University Ojo, Lagos State, Nigeria

Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), 2017, vol. 22, issue 02, 1-12

Abstract: This study examined the extent to which trust in organizational leadership predicts entrepreneurial intentions; and the extent to which this predictive relationship is moderated by work engagement, attitude to entrepreneurship and self-efficacy. Two hundred and twelve (212) male and female, midlevel and senior managerial staff, who had a minimum academic/professional qualification of a higher diploma with job tenures ranging from 1–30 years, were sampled across five service organizations in Lagos Nigeria with the aid of a combination of purposive and stratified random sampling techniques. Five measures (four scales and one bio-data form) were used to obtain targeted responses from the managers. Responses were analyzed with the aid of a moderated regression analysis in which it was found that trust in leadership did not have an influence on entrepreneurial intention; that personal entrepreneurship attitude and self-efficacy predicted entrepreneurial intention as expected; and that neither work engagement nor personal entrepreneurship attitude moderated the influence of trust in leadership on entrepreneurial intention. The results were discussed in light of reviewed theoretical and empirical literatures.

Keywords: Leadership; entrepreneurship; trust; work engagement; self-efficacy; attitude (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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