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En Route to an Empirically-Based Understanding of Authentic Leadership

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  • Endrissat, Nada
  • Müller, Werner R.
  • Kaudela-Baum, Stephanie

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In a qualitative leadership study conducted in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, the issues of authenticity and integrity were found to be of central importance in practitioners' narrations concerning leadership. This paper uses qualitative data to illustrate what authentic leadership means and what challenges exist in achieving it. The paper contributes to the current efforts in defining and understanding authentic leadership by comparing practitioner impressions with theories of authentic leadership and behavioral integrity. Similarities between the empirically-based subjective theories and the existing theoretical concepts are discussed and implications for the development of authenticity are outlined.

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  • Endrissat, Nada & Müller, Werner R. & Kaudela-Baum, Stephanie, 2007. "En Route to an Empirically-Based Understanding of Authentic Leadership," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 25(3), pages 207-220, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:eurman:v:25:y:2007:i:3:p:207-220
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    1. Christine A. Hemingway & Ken Starkey, 2018. "A Falling of the Veils: Turning Points and Momentous Turning Points in Leadership and the Creation of CSR," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 151(4), pages 875-890, September.
    2. Mark Gosling & Heh Huang, 2009. "The Fit Between Integrity and Integrative Social Contracts Theory," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 90(3), pages 407-417, December.
    3. Vincent Giolito, 2015. "Toward a unified "Theory Y" of leadership: Leader self-awareness, ethics and integrity as key attributes of positive leadership," Working Papers CEB 15-043, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    4. Helena Liu & Leanne Cutcher & David Grant, 2015. "Doing Authenticity: The Gendered Construction of Authentic Leadership," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 22(3), pages 237-255, May.
    5. Akif Tabak & Mustafa Polat & Serkan Cosar & Tolga Turkoz, 2013. "A Research on the Consequences of Authentic Leadership," Bogazici Journal, Review of Social, Economic and Administrative Studies, Bogazici University, Department of Economics, vol. 27(2), pages 65-88.

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