Original paper

Warning for excessive positivity: Authentic leadership and other traps in leadership studies

Volume: 30, Issue: 4, Pages: 383 - 395
Published: Aug 1, 2019
Abstract
We study authentic leadership as a prominent but problematic example of positive leadership that we use as a more general “warning” against the current fashion of excessive positivity in leadership studies. Without trying to cover “everything”, we critically examine the principal tenets of mainstream authentic leadership theory and reveal a number of fundamental flaws: shaky philosophical and theoretical foundations, tautological reasoning, weak...
Paper Details
Title
Warning for excessive positivity: Authentic leadership and other traps in leadership studies
Published Date
Aug 1, 2019
Volume
30
Issue
4
Pages
383 - 395
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