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Organizations and their employees have begun to recognize the importance of transparent communication and leadership in enterprises. This article presents how authentic leadership simultaneously affects the employee's engagement, performance, and transparent communication. Moreover, it will additionally propose how transparent communication has a concurrent effect on employee engagement (physical engagement, emotional engagement, and cognitive engagement). Further elaborate, it will present the outcome of transparent communications based on the study providing empirical evidence in a sample of 210 employees of medium and large IT enterprises in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia. The findings indicate a strong link between transparent and employee communication in enterprises.
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