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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of authentic leadership and management effectiveness through the mediation of knowledge sharing. This study is a correlation research. 160 school principals of Zahedan city were studied by using three questionnaires authentic leadership, knowledge sharing, and management effectiveness. For data analysis the Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling were used by SPSS and Lisrel software. Based on results the amount of correlation coefficient of authentic leadership with management effectiveness (r=0.775, p<0.01), authentic leadership with knowledge sharing (r=0.491, p<0.01), knowledge sharing with management effectiveness (r=0.588, p<0.01) was significant. Based on results the direct effect of authentic leadership on management effectiveness (β=0.71, t=6.28), direct effect of authentic leadership on knowledge sharing (β=0.65, t=4.851) and direct effect of knowledge sharing on management effectiveness (β=0.28, t=2.79) was significant. The indirect effect of authentic leadership on management effectiveness was also significant with the mediator role of knowledge sharing (β=0.182). Thus can conclude that authentic leadership is positively and significantly associated with management effectiveness both directly and indirectly with the mediating role of the knowledge sharing.

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