"What's your story?" A life-stories approach to authentic leadership development.

By Boas Shamir, Galit Eilam. 2005

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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Authentic leadership, employees’ job satisfaction, and work engagement: a hierarchical linear modelling approach (2014, background): “On the other hand, both Endrissat, Müller, and Kaudela-Baum (2007), and Shamir and Eilam (2005), express scepticism towards inseparable linking of authentic leadership to positive psychological resources.”
Between Person and Person: Dialogical Pedagogy in Authentic Leadership Development (2014, methodology): “…individuals can discover and develop their innate authentic potential by themselves, in a process that combines selfawareness and self-narration (Shamir & Eilam, 2005; Sparrowe, 2005), but the attempt to create a coherent personal narrative with a retrospective perspective can lead to…”
Developmental readiness: Accelerating leader development. (2008, background): “Applied to authentic leader development (Avolio, 2005; Avolio & Gardner, 2005; Avolio & Luthans, 2006), Sparrowe (2005) and Shamir and Eilam (2005) have proposed and have conducted some preliminary testing of narrative approaches to examining how authentic forms of leader development occur.”
A 25-year perspective on levels of analysis in leadership research (2014, background): “Moreover, some suggest authentic leadership differs from ethical leadership in that authentic leaders do not necessarily have to be moral or fair (Shamir & Eilam, 2005; Sparrowe, 2005), while others argue there is a moral component to authentic leadership (see Avolio & Gardner, 2005; Brown,…”
The Emerging Significance of Values Based Leadership: A Literature Review (2014, background): “…May, Chan, Hodges, & Avolio, 2003) and scholars (Avolio, Gardner, Walumbwa, Luthans & May, 2004; Avolio & Luthans, 2006; Avolio & Walumbwa, 2006; Gardner et al., 2005; Luthans & Avolio, 2003; Ilies et al., 2005; Shamir & Eilam, 2005) examine the characteristics and impact of authentic leadership.”
Authentic leadership: development of a new three pillar model (2015, background): “Like Sparrowe (2005), they argue that it is the leader’s life story narrative, which, when known, provides the major source of personal information around which followers base their judgements around the leader’s authenticity suggesting that self-disclosure and honesty are critical factors within a ”
Authentic leadership, creativity, and innovation: A multilevel perspective (2013, background): “To be authentic means to be natural, original, and not a copy (Shamir & Eilam, 2005).”
Positive psychology at work: A conceptual review, state-of-practice assessment, and a look ahead (2013, background): “Third, Shamir and Eilam (2005) suggest the construction of life stories, whereby the leader examines important events in his/her life, to develop authentic leadership.”
Leader and follower attachment styles: Implications for authentic leader–follower relationships (2014, methodology): “Specifically, the AAI could be used independently, or in combinationwith the life-stories interview technique described by Shamir and Eilam (2005), to provide a richer understanding of the influence of attachment on leader and follower authenticity.”
Leadership Identity Development: Challenges in Applying a Developmental Model (2009, methodology): “Each participant engaged in three individual interviews with a research team member using the life narrative method (Riessman, 1993; Seidman, 1991; Shamir & Eilam, 2005).”