Authentic Leadership: Old or New?

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Tet Soriano on Fri 22 Oct 2010, 11:26 am

Thank you for sharing your critiques of the theory with us.
I also agree that the theory is just a combination of old theories because reading about Wong's article, I realized that it is just back to basics. It is just a new combination of the basic theories.

According to Sanderson(2009), a 360 values based feedback assessment can help you measure how authentic you really are, what your strengths are, what they'd like you to improve and your range of flexibility in styles of leadership.Searching for tools to measure authenticity, I can hardly find one. Truly it is difficult to measure authenticity but a tool or an instrument may be developed.

Reference:

Sanderson, R. Authentic Leadership - The Values of Measuring How Are You Perceived. Retrieved July 24, 2009, from http://ezinearticles.com/?Authentic-Leadership---The-Values-of-Measuring-How-Are-You-Perceived&id=2656468.

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aimee on Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:32 am

Yes, I agree that the theory is a combination of concepts of old leadership theories, but the whole packaging is unique because the elements extracted from the old ones have essential bearing. Combined together, it paved the way to the advent of a leadership style at its best.

Authentic leadership may not be the only solution to various problems in our current diversified society, for the theory, as stated by Wong and Cumming, has flaws and weaknesses. On the other hand , the authors have likewise emphasized that it is the root construct of positive forms of leadership, therefore it has been developed as a leadership style at its best.

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mariekathleensantos on Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:21 am

Avolio et al. (2005) claimed that the intent of the authentic leadership model was notto develop another new theory for leadership. In fact,the concept of authentic leadership may be a return to fundamental aspects of leadership.Avolio et al.’sgoal was to investigate the common core of all leadershiptheories to discover, test,and explain the essence ofauthentic leadership intrinsic to a wide varietyof leadership approaches. With this statement, I agree withyour assumption that authentic leadership is a combination of the establishedleadership styles but to make it more comprehensible, authentic leadership isthe combination of the common core values of other styles.
Adequate instruments forexclusivelymeasuring authentic leadership are notyet available; however,empirical research to identify markersof authenticleadership1 and toadvance thedevelopmentof instruments to measure it2 are in progress. Instruments that measure some elements of authenticityare theServant LeadershipBehavior Scale3 and the MultifactorLeadership Questionnaire4 used to measuretransformational leadership. Authentic, servant, andtransformational leadershipstyles have distinct differences,5 and thus the instruments cited may not be adequate proxies to measure authenticleadership.
Pittinsky TL, Tyson CJ. Leader authenticity markers: findings from a study of African-American leaders. Available at: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu
/leadership/workingpapers.html. AccessedMarch 1, 2006.

Avolio BJ, Gardner WL, Walumbwa FO, Luthans F, May DR. Unlockingthemask: a look at the process bywhich authentic leaders impact followerattitudes and behaviors. Leadersh Q. 2004;15:801-823.
Sendjaya S. Development and validation of Servant LeadershipBehavior
Scale. Available at: http://www.regent.edu/acad/sls/publications/conference
_proceedings/servant_leadership_roundtable/2003/proceedings.htm. Accessed March 13, 2006.
Bass BM, Avolio BJ. Full Range Leadership Development: Manual for the
Multifactor Questionnaire. Palo Alto, Calif: Mind Garden; 1993.
Avolio BJ, Gardner WL. Authenticleadership development: getting to theroot of positive forms of leadership. Leadersh Q. 2005;16:315-338.

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roseanne.catalan on Fri 22 Oct 2010, 2:49 am

AC Ver wrote:
I think if there will be any more measure that will be developed in the near future, it still won’t be precise in measuring a person’s true self-awareness because authenticity is very specific not only to every individual but also to every trait and beliefs that that person possess. Its ambiguity and wide-scoped nature wouldn’t certainly be measured with merely a single tool or index.

I am also doubtful with the idea of finally generating instrument that would measure self-awareness or authenticity accurately. Something that involves belief, culture, ethics and moral which are subjective can be very hard to measure though I am optimistic with the idea that further research can be a key to develop instrument which can measure authenticity that is close to accurate. bounce

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roseanne.catalan on Fri 22 Oct 2010, 2:35 am

therese_132409 wrote:not at all. i think the authors of the article just place value or acknowledgement to the old theories and able to find and assert some gaps because some leadership theories in the past are broad, that's what the authors said.

If am correct with my understanding of literatures pertaining to authentic leadership, what drove the creation of this theory was the continuous need to respond to a call for a better nursing environment, perhaps because the old theories might not be enough to answer the call. Your statement that old theories are broad can somehow be a reason. Here's what I realized from reading your discussion paper: you can be authentic without considering the style of leadership you are using. The important thing that matter is, you have that genuine likeness to offer yourself to others. Like a Star @ heaven

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AC Ver on Fri 22 Oct 2010, 2:27 am

I can agree with you that the authentic leadership theory is just derived from various existing leadership theories. It may not be labeled as ‘new’, but I can say that this theory has its way of being an improved version from the rest.

It may be that self-awareness is measured as knowing one’s emotions, preferences, and intuitions and includes three competencies: emotional awareness, accurate self-assessment, and self-confidence but it for sure still is difficult to measure in observable terms. But I think followers can be able to assess a leader’s authenticity if he is open and is eager to listen to the feedback of what his members has to say. With this, the leader can work hard on developing self-awareness through persistent and courageous self-exploration. In addition, it is said that the Emotional Competency Inventory presents a way in assessing emotional competencies which is the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves and for managing emotions effectively in ourselves and others, which in turn contributes to effective performance at work (Wolff, 2005). But even with this, others still claim that there are no existing true measures of self-awareness (Cooper et al., 2005)

I think if there will be any more measure that will be developed in the near future, it still won’t be precise in measuring a person’s true self-awareness because authenticity is very specific not only to every individual but also to every trait and beliefs that that person possess. Its ambiguity and wide-scoped nature wouldn’t certainly be measured with merely a single tool or index.

References:

1. Steven B. Wolff, DBA, 2005. Emotional Competence Inventory (ECI) Technical Manual. Hay Group McClelland Center for Research and Innovation November 2005.
2. Cooper, C.D., Scandura, T.A. and Schriesheim, C.A. (2005), “Looking forward but learning from our past: potential challenges to developing authentic leadership theory and authentic leaders”, The Leadership Quarterly

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roseanne.catalan on Fri 22 Oct 2010, 2:12 am

Charis Juan wrote:s.
The Wong theory of authentic leadership, indeed, involves several abstract concepts which are difficult to measure.

I agree that one of the weaknesses of the theory is the fact that it lacks measurability. I still stand with the fact that further research focusing only on one concept before testing the whole theory to improve its operational definition might be needed. bounce

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AntonJayTan on Fri 22 Oct 2010, 2:08 am

I believe that the authentic theory by wong came from previous theories or concepts of leadership that was made. Wong only improve it and connected it to nursing

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roseanne.catalan on Fri 22 Oct 2010, 1:48 am

PriNcE RJ wrote:
Actually, when I read the "Authentic Leadership" by Wong and Cummings, I forgot that there was a hanging question in the title! Well maybe I got carried away by the contents of the theory.

I would just want to ask, if Authentic Leadership is a compilation of other leadership theories, is it something negative?

I think this Authentic Leadership theory is not a "merely impossible" theory but an ideal theory. A lot of things can be ideal without being perfect right?

Thank you for the compliment! Very Happy

We share the same feelings. I was also overwhelmed by the beauty of this theory. At first, I didn’t know where my stand was. I was jumping from pro, con, pro, con. But, like the irony of this theory, I think I am both pro and con.
The way I wrote my discussion proves that combining old theories for a new concept is negative. Honestly, that was what I wanted to entail from the very start. However, reading others’ discussion paper made me realized that the idea of combining old theories alone is negative BUT the idea that it would create a new ideal idea or concept is something positive.
What I mean by “nearly impossible” is few can meet the criteria of being authentic leader as it is a gift that requires passion and commitment. Few people, almost none I believe, possess that genuine way of offering his/herself. I don’t know, maybe I am just being pessimistic about it.

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roseanne.catalan on Fri 22 Oct 2010, 1:39 am

edliwag wrote:
The overlapping of the elements with other theories that resulted in formulating the core concepts for the model made it hard to understand.

I think the theory is just loaded with so many concepts which made it hard to know where the focus really is. I agree the lack of existing instrument used to measure concepts like self awareness, ethics and moral can be the most solid gap that research need to fill out. Probably, the research should limit its focus on knowing how variables should be measured. bounce

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roseanne.catalan on Thu 21 Oct 2010, 10:55 pm

chel_calvelo wrote:
Indeed, that was a good discussion!. You have critique the article well. I totally agree with you that this is just a combination of the concepts of old leadership theory. Even though there are new concepts that was laid down, some of the ideas are gathered from the old forms of leadership.

Thank you. After reading others' discussion, I've come to realize that yes, it is combination of old concepts which made the theory new. I think that authenticity can be the sole requirement of being an effective leader. We need to offer not only a portion of ourselves but ourself as a whole. I commend the theorist for coming up with this theory. Authenticity has long been known and unknown. We know it but we haven't realized the need to put it into words. bounce

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roseanne.catalan on Thu 21 Oct 2010, 10:26 pm

cezzy wrote:
However, though it came from different theories before, it is still considered a new concept with new style since it took an in-depth focus on factors that Wong thought is essential for a better leadership theory.

Thank you for the commendation though I don’t feel very much confident with my paper.
Yes, it is a new concept yet contains basic and old ideas. The creator of this theory tried to compress all the criteria of an effective leadership in one concise word. Authentic. This is the word that has long been hiding in between the lines of old theories. Finally, it emerged. This word is very basic yet complex. New yet old. That is the irony of it.

I don’t refute the fact that theories are tentative, in fact it is forever tentative, my only point is that it lacks authentic instrument to measure authenticity to make the theory more valid. Perhaps further research that focuses only on one concept of authentic leadership is needed to further prove the consistency of the theory.
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roseanne.catalan on Thu 21 Oct 2010, 9:55 pm

ylaganroidah wrote: For me, I think it should be called more like an enhanced or revised category form of leadership.

I second the motion. Reading other posts deepen my understanding of the main reason of this emerging theory. The irony is it is both old and new. It is reminding us to grow, be authentic without turning our back to basic. This emerging theory is only reminding us, as a nurse-leader, of one thing, we simply have to CARE. I love you

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roseanne.catalan on Thu 21 Oct 2010, 8:29 pm

khayee_07 wrote:

nevertheless, i think the theory tries to depict a very observable phenomena yet difficult to approach... i guess it doesn't really require all the mentioned qualities to be observed in a leader so as to be called authentic, but rather it gives a wider perspective on areas that can be address to by a leader in order to be an effective one; areas were problems usually arise and are usually taken for granted...

Yes, I agree with your statement that the theory is very observable, observable in a sense that you can observe it only with your feelings, your heart can see what your eyes can't. Yet difficult to approach, meaning it is very hard to measure because it is subjective in nature. On the other hand, I’m afraid to say yes, it needs all the mentioned qualities to be an authentic leader. But the qualities are very innate on the person, meaning he/she has those qualities without putting so much effort to have it. The person can't just help but to possess it, it is very much his/hers. That is the reason why I think, being a leader is like being a nurse. It is a gift. You need commitment and passion and you are ready to give yourself.

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therese_132409 on Thu 21 Oct 2010, 6:08 pm

not at all. i think the authors of the article just place value or acknowledgement to the old theories and able to find and assert some gaps because some leadership theories in the past are broad, that's what the authors said. if a person think that hes perfect, then what needs to be improved? what needs to be explored more on him? so there's a part or characteristic of an individual to be found and developed. a person might not possess all the elements of authentic leadership,you can make him conscious of the element he doesn't have and able to acquire, put it into his system, and act on it little by little. an instrument i think just serves as a guide or basis to atleast conclude that a person possess authenticity. it could be a measurement objectively or subjectively.

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