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This study was conducted in order to systematically examine the researches about authentic leadership in health employees, to determine the target groups and the concepts related to authentic leadership. Prisma method was used in this study. Researches on authentic leadership were obtained by Scopus and ISI Web of Science (WOS) databases. Studies with the words authentic leadership, health and nurse in the title were scanned. A total of 101 studies have been reached. Dublicate publications, studies whose publication language was not English, whose full text could not be accessed, samples of which were not health employees and without research articles were excluded from the study, and as a result, 42 studies were evaluated. It was determined that authentic leadership studies, which were examined in line with the inclusion criteria, started to be carried out since 2009.The survey method was used in most of the studies and the research design of the studies was planned quantitatively. The samples of more than half of the studies were nurses. Burnout, work engagement, trust, job satisfaction, and turnover intention were concepts associated with authentic leadership. In studies, a negative relationship was found between authentic leadership and burnout, turnover intention; a positive relationship was found between authentic leadership and work engagement, trust and job satisfaction. This study will be a guide for future studies, it is recommended to conduct researches in different healthcare professionals such as physicians, dentists, health administrator and also focus on qualitative studies.
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Yeşilaydın, G., Hancıoğlu, Y. (2021). Authentic Leadership in Health Employees: A Systematic Review. In: Erçetin, Ş.Ş., Açıkalın, Ş.N., Vajzović, E. (eds) Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2020. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74057-3_17
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