Authenticity in leading: Asset or liability?
Year: 2022
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Following the emergence of the ethical dimension in business, leadership studies have been proposing several types of ethically-focused leaders, among which authentic leadership. This has been mostly advocated as being beneficial to organizations and employees, but there are also suggestions in the literature that it can be detrimental as authenticity may be occasionally counterproductive, as inferred by the organizational politics literature. This suggests that the relationship between authentic leadership and organizational outcomes may not follow a linear relation contrarily to what is usually assumed. This study is designed to test an inverted U-shaped relationship between authentic leadership and preparedness to deal with a political crisis in organizations. We tested the proposed curvilinear model with a sample of 127 employees to find a surprising U-shape relation, suggesting authenticity in leaders can be both an asset (when low or high) and a liability (when moderate). Findings are discussed in light of the literature.
Source: Repositório do ISCTE-IUL
Author: Gandarez, Cláudia Sofia Noronha Pinto
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7017426604