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What is Authentic Leader

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Leadership Styles, Innovation, and Social Entrepreneurship in the Era of Digitalization
A leader who is self-conscious and acts in harmony with his/her true ideas and emotions.
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Authentic Leadership, Leader Optimism, and Follower Affective Commitment: An Experimental Study
Nevra Baker (Altinbas University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1108-4.ch013
Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of authentic leadership together with the leader emotional expressivity of optimism on follower affective commitment towards the organization. This study was undertaken in the format of an experiment that is followed by a survey in which four groups of different fictional leader types were created, and respondents were asked to answer questions about their self-rated potential affective commitment towards the organization with the assumption that the respondents were actually working with the described leader. The findings of this study reveal that both authentic and inauthentic leaders who display optimism arouse higher levels of affective comitment by their followers as compared to their non-optimistic counterparts.
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Authentic Leaders and Business Tourism: An Exploration of Authentic Relationships
An individual who “influences and motivates followers to achieve goals through their sincerity and positive moral perspective, enabled through heightened awareness and balanced processing” ( Crawford et al., 2019 AU63: The citation "Crawford et al., 2019" matches multiple references. Please add letters (e.g. "Smith 2000a"), or additional authors to the citation, to uniquely match references and citations. ).
Published in Chapter: Authentic Leaders and Business Tourism: An Exploration of Authentic Relationships; From: Accelerating Knowledge Sharing, Creativity, and Innovation Through Business Tourism
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Will They or Won't They?: Understanding Nascent Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Emergence Through Authentic Leadership Behaviours
An individual that is able to influence and motivate their followers, in order to achieve goals through their positive moral perspective and sincerity, while enabled through heightened awareness and balanced processing.
Published in Chapter: Will They or Won't They?: Understanding Nascent Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Emergence Through Authentic Leadership Behaviours; From: Handbook of Research on Nascent Entrepreneurship and Creating New Ventures
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Ecotourism Emergence in Tasmania Through Social Entrepreneurs and Authentic Leaders
an individual who “influences and motivates followers to achieve goals through their sincerity and positive moral perspective, enabled through heightened awareness and balanced processing.” (Crawford et al., 2019a).
Published in Chapter: Ecotourism Emergence in Tasmania Through Social Entrepreneurs and Authentic Leaders; From: Global Entrepreneurial Trends in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry
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Digitally Empowered Workers and Authentic Leaders: The Capabilities Required for Digital Services
A leader who “influences and motivates followers to achieve goals through their sincerity and positive moral perspective, enabled through heightened awareness and balanced processing” ( Crawford et al., 2019 AU48: The citation "Crawford et al., 2019" matches multiple references. Please add letters (e.g. "Smith 2000a"), or additional authors to the citation, to uniquely match references and citations. , n.p.).
Published in Chapter: Digitally Empowered Workers and Authentic Leaders: The Capabilities Required for Digital Services; From: Leadership, Management, and Adoption Techniques for Digital Service Innovation
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