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Larsson, Magnus, Clifton, Jonathan and Schnurr, Stephanie (2021) The fallacy of discrete authentic leader behaviors : locating authentic leadership in interaction. Leadership, 17 (4). pp. 421-440. doi:10.1177/17427150211015845 ISSN 1742-7150.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/17427150211015845
Abstract
The concept of authentic leadership is increasingly the focus of much leadership scholarship, and many have called for a review of the basic assumptions that underpin it. Taking an interactional approach to authentic leadership (AL) and using naturally occurring workplace interaction as data, we seek to question two basic assumptions of AL scholarship, namely (1) that authentic leadership emanates from the atomized leader and (2) that there is a causal logic to it so that authentic leadership behaviours are the cause of follower outcomes. Addressing the research questions – what is the nature of the empirical phenomenon that is called AL and where can this be ontologically located? – our findings indicate that these two fundamental assumptions that underpin current AL research are not justified. Rather, what is taken to be AL is better understood as a collective and collaborative achievement, which can neither simply be attributed to the leader nor can the leader’s actions alone lead to follower outcomes.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Leadership , Social interaction , Conversation analysis , Followership | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Leadership | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1742-7150 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 August 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 17 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 421-440 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/17427150211015845 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Posted ahead of print. Larsson, Magnus, Clifton, Jonathan and Schnurr, Stephanie (2021) The fallacy of discrete authentic leader behaviors. Locating authentic leadership in interaction. Leadership (In Press) Copyright © 2021 (Copyright Holder). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. DOI: 10.1177/17427150211015845 Users who receive access to an article through a repository are reminded that the article is protected by copyright and reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses. | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 May 2021 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 May 2021 | ||||||||
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