The impossibility of the ‘true self’ of authentic leadership

By J. Ford, Nancy Harding. 2011

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Creative Leadership: A Multi-Context Conceptualization† (2015, background): “For instance, it is not surprising that social psychologically driven researchers interested in how leaders influence employee creativity select research sites like the steel company studied by Frese et al. (1999), where the very idea of the company’s idea-suggestion scheme was to facilitate employe”
Warning for excessive positivity: Authentic leadership and other traps in leadership studies (2019, background): “…proponents (c.f. Banks, McCauley, Gardner, & Guler, 2016; Cooper, Scandura, & Schriesheim, 2005; Gardner, Cogliser, Davis, & Dickens, 2011), truly critical studies discussing authentic leadership are few (Ford & Harding, 2011; Ladkin & Spiller, 2013; Spoelstra et al., 2016 are notable exceptions).”
Paradoxes of authentic leadership: Leader identity struggles (2014, background): “…assumption that there is an essential ‘true self’ and that acting according to this ‘real self’ will lead to good, or morally superior, leadership that delivers positive organisational outcomes (see also Algera and Lips-Wiersma, 2012; Ford and Harding, 2011; Ladkin and Taylor, 2010; Shaw, 2010).”
Identity undoing and power relations in leadership development (2013, background): “…grow or transform one’s subordinates will always invoke power relations as well as identity undoing, and that leadership may therefore be experienced as unsettling or oppressive (see Ford and Harding, 2011 for a compelling critique of the destructive potential of authentic leadership theory).”
Prozac leadership and the limits of positive thinking (2012, background): “Cheerfulness is required, ‘dissent is a kind of treason’ (Ehrenreich, 2009: 31).”