Authentic Leadership's Impact on the Individual and the Group.

On today's VBlog, I share with you a study done by Dr. Carol Gill and Dr. Arran Caza titled, "An Investigation of Authentic Leadership's Individual and Group Influence on Follower Responses.", published in the Journal of Management (2018).

Back to the research.

I had high hopes for this study because of my curiosity of the larger impact that an Authentic Leader has on an organization. What I was hoping to see was the overall cultural impact of an Authentic Leader at the individual level and group level.

What I got was a bit different, or at least what I understood was a bit different. In the end, this research aimed to answer two overarching questions:

1) What is the follower response to an Authentic Leader across a) identification of leader, 2) trustworthiness of a leader, 3) positive state of a leader, and 4) positive social exchange with the leader?

2) Is there an additive impact on the follower A-to-follower B relationship based on the influence of the AL on follower A across the four factors above?

I will not get into the methodological challenges of the researchers, but I will say I was less than impressed. Go ahead and watch the video to get the full scoop.