Authentic Leadership Concepts

Authentic Leadership

• Originates from the concept of "To thine own self to be true" from Shakespeare's Hamlet and "Know thyself" from Plato.
• Authenticity involves owning one's experiences, thoughts, emotions, needs, beliefs, and acting in alignment with one's true self.
• Authentic leaders are originals, not imitations of others.
• Defined as a leadership behavior pattern that promotes positive psychological capacities and ethical climate, fostering self-awareness, ethical principles, information processing, and relational transparency.
• Positive psychological capacities include hope, optimism, resilience, and self-efficacy.
• Self-awareness involves understanding and owning one's values, morals, and ethics.
• Internalized moral perspective refers to caring for followers, adhering to ethical standards, and using a moral compass to guide actions.
• Balanced processing encourages considering different perspectives during decision-making.
• Relational transparency involves being open and vulnerable with others, allowing them to get to know you.
• Authentic leaders also help followers develop these skills, aiming to cultivate authentic leadership.
• Authenticity exists on a continuum, with self-monitoring and emotional labor influencing its expression.
• Emotional labor can involve surface acting (faking emotions), deep acting (attempting to feel desired emotions), or genuine emotion.

Charismatic Leadership

• Roots in Aristotle's rhetoric, emphasizing trust and confidence built through pathos (emotional appeal), ethos (moral perspective), and logos (reasoned argument).
• Charisma was originally considered a "divine inspire gift."
• Max Weber first used the term "Charisma" to describe heroes, prophets, and saviors, such as Steve Jobs, JFK, and Obama.
• Weber identified five necessary conditions for charismatic leadership: extraordinary gifts, a crisis, a revolutionary solution, attracted followers, and repeated successes.
• The psychological theory of charismatic leadership (House, 1977) focuses on emotional interaction between leaders and followers, highlighting the role of persuasive skills, role modeling, and identification.
• Charisma is currently defined as values-based, symbolic, and emotion-laden leader signaling.
• Charisma is considered a learnable skill, with 12 "charismatic leadership tactics" (CLTs) identified.
• Nine CLTs are verbal, including metaphors, stories, contrasts, rhetorical questions, part lists, expressions of moral conviction, reflections of group sentiments, high goals, and conveying confidence in achieving those goals.
• Three CLTs are nonverbal: animated voice, facial expressions, and gestures.

Transformational Leadership

• Originates from James McGregor Burns, who defined it as a process where individuals engage with others to raise both leaders and followers to higher levels of motivation and morality.
• Transformational leadership encompasses four components: idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration.
• Idealized influence, previously known as charisma, refers to the emotional element of transformational leadership, where leaders act as role models.
• Inspirational motivation involves motivating followers to achieve ambitious goals by communicating confidence in their ability to succeed, utilizing the Pygmalion effect.
• Intellectual stimulation focuses on problem awareness and solving, engaging followers' minds and experiences.
• Individualized consideration involves providing personalized attention and support to each follower, acting as a coach or mentor.

Transactional Leadership

• Based on economic rewards and exchanges, involving contingent rewards for desired behaviors.
• Seen as reasonably effective in motivating followers.

Shared Leadership

• Emerges within teams through the distribution of leadership influence across multiple team members.

Implicit Leadership Theories

• Preconceived notions about what teams expect from their leaders.
• Help followers determine a leader's worthiness of influence.

Servant Leadership

• Inspired by the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, emphasizing the principle of "servant first."
• It begins with a natural desire to serve, followed by a conscious choice to lead.
• Greenleaf's work (1977) focuses on the leader's role in meeting followers' needs and promoting their growth.
• It stresses the personal growth of followers and their potential to become servants themselves.
• Its goal is to create positive change in society by developing individuals who will contribute to that change.

Explore the principles of authentic leadership, which emphasize self-awareness, ethical behavior, and the importance of staying true to oneself. This quiz delves into the psychological aspects that inform authentic leadership, including hope, resilience, and relational transparency. Test your knowledge on how these concepts foster a positive organizational climate.