: 10.56472/25835238/IRJEMS-V4I10P119
Yurizal, Akmal, Fivi Anggraini. "Bridging Transparent Communication and Authentic Leadership towards Openness to Change through Mediating Role of Organisational Trust" International Research Journal of Economics and Management Studies, Vol. 4, No. 10, pp. 154-162, 2025. Crossref. http://doi.org/10.56472/25835238/IRJEMS-V4I10P119
Nowadays, one of the main focus of the Government of Indonesia is change. It is manifested by some efforts by the Government. One of those efforts is a policy named as Bureaucratic Reform. In order to undertake the change successfully, organisation needs support from its employees. One important key of support required by organisation from its employees is called openness to change. This research involves 106 employees of the Civil State Apparatus at the Class II Type A Navigation District Office of Teluk Bayur. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was used with the Smart-PLS 3.2.9 software program to perform analysis. The research results indicate that openness to change is positively influenced by transparent communication. On the contrary, authentic leadership does not have a significant impact on openness to change, but positively impacts openness to change through mediating role of organisational trust, with P-Values of 0.038. Moreover, authentic leadership has a significant and positive effect on organisational trust (P-Values 0.000). Organisational trust has a positive and significant impact on openness to change. (P-Values 0.032). However, the link between transparent communication and openness to change is not mediated, with P-values of 0.729.
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Transparent Communication, Authentic Leadership, Organisational Trust, Openness to Change.