Leadership Special Issue: Do we need Authentic Leadership? Interrogating authenticity in a new world order

Special Issue on “new Is Leadership Roles for a Digital World”

In the digital world of 2011 and beyond, we see information technologies increasingly embedded in organizations’ products, services, processes and decisions. Trends in the use of the Internet for multimedia, scalable platforms, social media, analytical software, wireless technologies, internetworking, and new human sourcing arrangements are changing the way business is conducted. Collectively, ...

Tweeting Authentic Leadership: social Media in a Leadership Context

Twitter, as a specific social media platform, is a means of communication that is easy to track, requires simple language, short and clear messages, and is constantly occurring, thereby making it an excellent means to communicate leadership and track its effect. Authentic leadership in its most essential form requires communication of values, establishing connected relationships, and demonstrat...

Discovering your authentic leadership.

The ongoing problems in business leadership over the past five years have underscored the need for a new kind of leader in the twenty-first century: the authentic leader. Author Bill George, a Harvard Business School professor and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, and his colleagues, conducted the largest leadership development study ever undertaken. They interviewed 125 business leader...

Talent Management via Authentic Leadership

  The Purpose of this study is Survey The effect of the three components of authentic leadership, Self-awareness, Self-regulation and Behavior on Implementation of Talent Management process. The research is applied and survey was conducted in sample of 270 of force staff in the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company; for data gathering a questionnaire was used after reliability and...

We need leaders, not leadership fads.