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Current challenging but stressful business environments throughout the world call for a different yet moral and authentic leadership perspective and style. Enron cases and unethical CEO managerial practices have been criticized and more ethical and authentic leadership has been emphasized. The purpose of this study is to explore a mediating effect of participatory decision making upon the relationship between authentic leadership on job engagement and psychological ownership in China's small and medium-sized enterprises. For this, this study focused on examining the influential relationship among authentic leadership perceived by employees, employees' job engagement, and psychological ownership. In addition we tried to exam the mediating effect of participatory decision making upon the relationship. 215 employees who work for china's small and medium-sized enterprises as an employee participated in a questionnaire survey. The results of the research are summarized as follow. Frist, authentic leadership has a significant positive (+) effect on job engagement and psychological ownership and participatory decision making. Second, participatory decision making has a significant positive (+) effect on job engagement and psychological ownership. Third, participatory decision making has partially mediated effect on relationship between authentic leadership and job engagement, psychological ownership. In this study, the authentic leadership perceived by employee has a positive impact on job engagement and psychological ownership and participatory decision making. We can design a program to develop authentic leadership of leaders to ensure that employees are actively involved in participatory decision-making lead to raise the employees' job engagement and psychological ownership in China's small and medium-sized enterprises.