%0 Journal Article %T Entrepreneur as an authentic leader: A study of small and medium sized enterprises in Pakistan %A Taimoor Abid %A Mohsin Altaf %A Usman Yousaf %A Mohammad Majid Mehmood Bagram %J Management Science Letters %D 2012 %I Growing Science %X The aim of this paper is to explore the authentic leadership styles of an entrepreneurs and its impact on employee¡¯s commitment and satisfaction. By using the authentic leadership model, this study seeks to give a tentative test of the connection among employees¡¯ awareness of the business creator as an authentic leader and the employees¡¯ attitudes. Findings are that the opinion of employees¡¯ about authentic leadership serves as the intoxicating analyst of employee job satisfaction and organizational commitment. %K Leadership %K Entrepreneurs %K SME %U http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol2/msl_2012_200.pdf