What factor in authentic leadership describes major events that shape people’s lives?

Executive summary

This CQ Dossier focuses on the topic of authentic leadership which emphasizes the importance of leaders building honest and transparent relationships with their followers. The dossier describes the key component of authentic leadership and also describes how organizations can best identify and develop these behaviors in management.

About the Author

Annette was born in England and now lives in the United States. She has a PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and has taught at several institutions. Annette has published in several journals, including Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Human Resource Development Quarterly, and Organizational Research Methods. She worked in the public and private sector for many years, primarily as a management trainer.

1. Authentic leadership represents one of the newest areas of leadership and is about the authenticity of leaders and their leadership. It is likely to change as new research about the theory is published.
Scholars: Bass 1990; Bass and Steidimer 1999; Burns 1978 ; Howell and Avolio 1993. They asked questions to help them identity the parameters of authentic leadership and more clearly conceptualize it.
2. Practical: the authentic leadership approach developed by George focuses on the characteristics of authentic leaders; described in a practical way these are the essential qualities of authentic leadership and how individuals can develop these qualities if they want to become authentic leaders- purpose, values, relationships, self-discipline, and heart
Theoretical: in an effort to further our understanding of authentic leadership, Walumba and associates (2008), conducted a comprehensive review of literature and interviewed groups of content experts in the field to determine what component constituted authentic leadership and to develop a valid measure of this construct. Their research identified: self-awareness. Internalized moral perspective, balanced processing and relational transparency. Together these four components from the foundation for a theory of authentic leadership. There are other factors such as positive psychological capacities, moral reasoning, and critical life events that influence authentic leadership. Furthermore, confidence, hope, optimism, and resilience have an impact on authentic leadership.

3. It is hard to define because it is still in development. It is also a complex process that emphasizes the development of qualities that help leaders to be perceived as trustworthy and believable.
-Interpersonal: focuses closely on the leader and what goes within the leader; incorporates the leader’s self-knowledge, self-regulation, and self-concept.
-Intrapersonal: outline authentic leadership as relational created by leaders and followers together. Requires a response from the followers.
-Developmental: views authentic leadership as something that can be nurtured in a leader rather than as a fixed trait.
All of these definitions help contribute to fact that this type of leadership is very complex and that it has a lot of emotions as factors that affect it. Very internal and personal.
4. 5 characteristics: passion, behavior, connectedness, consistency, and compassion. George’s approach compares to the trait approach in the an authentic leader, for the most part, has developed traits and doesn’t need to learn how to incorporate more/ other traits to be an effective leader. Relating to the big 5, an authentic leader doesn’t have to work hard to encompass these traits. Everything come naturally.
5. Passion: leaders have a deep-seated interest in what they are doing and truly care about their work (Terry Fox )
Compassion: being sensitive to the plight of others, opening one’s self to others, and being willing to help them.
6. The dimensions further define the characteristics and help the reader to understand what the characteristics really encompass.
7. I think that because there are many different aspects of Walumba’s AL, the best way to distinguish if that traits help the leader carry out the behavior. And because they correlate so closely, you can’t have the behavior without the trait.
8. Self-awareness: refers to the personal insights of the leaders. It is not an end in itself, but a process in which individuals understand themselves, including their strengths and weaknesses, and the impact that they have on others. This is easy to identify because leaders will have a strong anchor for who they are as well as their decisions and actions. They know exactly what they stand for.
9. Process: using the developmental perspective, authentic leadership develops over time as a process and in nurtured in a leader-not just learned or exposed to overnight.
Influence: authentic leaders have a high influence over their followers. More people follow this type of leader because they are authentic
Group context: most of the time, an authentic has everything necessary to appeal to all aspects of the group. And has the necessary and authentic skills needed for group leadership. Group size doesn’t matter.
Goal attainment: authentic leaders know what they stand for thus proving a steadfast goal achievement. Nothing sways their determination within reason of course.
10. Strengths:
– It fulfills an expressed need for trustworthy leadership in society; helps fill a void
– Provides broad guidelines for individuals who want to become authentic leaders (practical and theoretical)
– Has an explicit moral dimension; requires leaders to do what is right and good
– Emphasizes the authentic values and behaviors can be developed in leaders over time
– Can be measured using the AOL (authentic leadership questionnaire
Criticisms:
-the concepts and ideas presented in George’s practical
-the moral component of authentic leadership is not fully explained
-researchers have questioned whether positive psychological capacities should be included as components of authentic leadership
-it is not clear how authentic leadership results in positive organizational outcomes.

What are the main factors of authentic leadership?

Which of the following is a factor that influences authentic leadership in the theoretical model?

What does authentic leadership focus on?

Which perspective on authentic leadership suggests that authenticity is something that grows in people over a lifetime and can be triggered by major life events?