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L EX LOCALIS - J OURNAL OF L OCAL S ELF -G OVERNMENT Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 625 - 645, July 2017 The Impact of Authentic Leadership on Psychological Empowerment of the Employees in the Slovenian Local Self-Government Institutions M IHA M ARIČ , G OZDANA M IGLIČ & G AŠPER J ORDAN 1 Abstract Main aim of our research was to empirically test how the supervisor’s authentic leadership relates to the four independent constructs representing followers’ psychological empowerment in Slovenian local self-government institutions. We tested four hypotheses in one structural model by using structural equation modelling (SEM). The quantitative data for our analysis was collected through a survey on 169 employees of Slovenian municipalities. Findings show that the supervisor’s authentic leadership is positively related to the dimensions constructing followers’ psychological empowerment; especially when it comes to self-determination and impact, less when it comes to meaning and at least when it comes to competence. Keywords: • authentic leadership • HRM • leadership • local self- government • psychological empowerment C ORRESPONDENCE A DDRESS : Miha Marič, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kidričeva cesta 55a, 4000 Kranj, Slovenia, email: miha.maric@fov.uni-mb.si. Gozdana Miglič, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kidričeva cesta 55a, 4000 Kranj, Slovenia, email: gozdana.miglic@fov.uni-mb.si . Gašper Jordan, M.Sc., Adecco H.R. d.o.o., Ameriška ulica 8, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, email: gasper.jordan77@gmail.com. https://doi.org/10.4335/15.3.625-645 (2017) ISSN 1581-5374 Print/1855-363X Online © 2017 Lex localis Available online at http://journal.lex-localis.press.