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Allied Business Academies
Revision date: 30-May-2019
Length: 10 pages
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Abstract
The plethora and enormity of corruption across industry sectors (eg, higher education, corporate scandals and political unrest) during the early 21st century helped develop a profound sense of distrust among the public and prompted scholars and business leaders to propagate a new leadership theory that could effectively address these new challenges. Authentic leadership, a relatively new leadership theory, is a construct that incorporates traits, behaviors, styles and skills to promote ethical and honest behavior and thus has greater positive long-term outcomes for leaders, their followers and their organizations. According to proponents of the theory, authenticity is believed to make leaders more effective, lead with meaning, purpose, values and be better equipped to deal with organizational challenges. In this paper, the authors define authentic leadership and present an exploratory research study on its theory and application in practice.
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Abstract
The plethora and enormity of corruption across industry sectors (eg, higher education, corporate scandals and political unrest) during the early 21st century helped develop a profound sense of distrust among the public and prompted scholars and business leaders to propagate a new leadership theory that could effectively address these new challenges. Authentic leadership, a relatively new leadership theory, is a construct that incorporates traits, behaviors, styles and skills to promote ethical and honest behavior and thus has greater positive long-term outcomes for leaders, their followers and their organizations. According to proponents of the theory, authenticity is believed to make leaders more effective, lead with meaning, purpose, values and be better equipped to deal with organizational challenges. In this paper, the authors define authentic leadership and present an exploratory research study on its theory and application in practice.