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10. Authentic Leadership and Authenticity: An Existential Perspective

Authors : Cloé Fortin, Louis Baron, Cécile Renucci

Published in: Authentic Leadership and Followership

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is, firstly, to assess the similarities between the traits of authenticity and authentic leadership, as viewed by researchers using two different perspectives historically used to define authenticity: the existential perspective and the psychological perspective. Secondly, using a correlational design, the chapter goes through an exploration of the relationship between authenticity and authentic leadership in a French-Canadian population using a quantitative approach. This chapter thus provides a relevant exploration of the evolution of the concept of authentic leadership and various observations of its impact on followers, integrating the existential perspective to respond to continuing concerns regarding coherence between authentic leadership and the concept from which it is derived, namely authenticity.

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Title: Authentic Leadership and Authenticity: An Existential Perspective
Authors: Cloé Fortin
Louis Baron
Cécile Renucci
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Authentic Leadership and Followership
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-65306-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-65307-5

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65307-5_10