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Toward a behavioral theory of charismatic leadership in organizational settings

J Conger, RN Kanungo Academy of management review 1987

Charismatic leadership has been largely overlooked by organizational theorists. In part, the problem can be attributed to the lack of a systematic conceptual framework Drawing from political science, sociology, and social psychology, this paper addresses the problem by proposing a model linking organizational contexts to charismatic leade...

Positive psychology: An introduction.

MEP Seligman, M Csikszentmihalyi American Psychologist 2000

A science of positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions promises to improve quality of life and prevent the pathologies that arise when life is barren and meaningless. The exclusive focus on pathology that has dominated so much of our discipline results in a model of the human being lacking the p...

Achieving relational authenticity in leadership: Does gender matter?

AH Eagly The Leadership Quarterly 2005

This article presents a relational view of leaders' authenticity by arguing that much more is required of leaders than transparently conveying and acting on their values. Achieving relational authenticity requires that followers accord leaders the legitimacy to promote a set of values on behalf of a community. Only under such conditions c...

Strengths-based leadership development: Insights from expert coaches.

D Welch, K Grossaint, K Reid, C Walker Consulting Psychology Journal 2014

There is a growing trend in which coaches are using a strengths-based approach to help leaders move from fair leadership performance toward greater capacities. Although a number of strengths assessments are popular now, there is not enough research on how strengths mature in a long-term, sustainable way. In this article a multiple case st...

Identity and Legitimacy in the Emerging Profession Of Health Coaching

CB Murphy Murphy, C.B. 2015

The Authentic Leadership Qualities of Business Coaches and its Impact on Coaching Performance

A Gatling International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2014

This study determines the extent to which business coaches perceive they possess the qualities of authentic leadership and considers how this affects coaching performance. Data were collected from an online survey administered to 96 business coaches who work with entrepreneurs and business owners to improve personal and business effect...

The potential use of the Authenticity Scale as an outcome measure in executive coaching

I Susing, LS Green, A Grant The Coaching Psychologist 2011

Authenticity, or being true to oneself, has been identified as a key construct related to well-being and the effective performance of leaders. This paper describes the construct of authenticity in the context of existing positive psychology and coaching psychology research. We discuss the Authenticity Scale and its suggested use both a...

Humanistic Authentic Leadership Development

T Fusco, S O'Riordan, S Palmer Coaching Psychology International 2014

Executive coaching: Does coach-coachee matching based on similarity really matter?

G Bozer, B- Joo, J Santora Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2015

Although executive coaching has become increasingly popular in the corporate world for the last 2 decades, there have been few empirical studies on how the match between coach and coachee affects the coaching relationship. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of gender similarity and perceived similarity on executive-coach...

The humble and the humbled: A grounded theory of humility in organizational leadership

J Austin 2013

Despite the clarion call over the past decade for greater humility in organizational leaders, little is known about the construct as a leadership trait. And, while scholars have engaged an energetic debate over how to define humility in an organizational context, there is scant evidence for how humble leaders enact humility, what enabl...

A Trojan Horse? The Implications of Managerial Coaching for Leadership Theory

V Anderson Human Resource Development International 2013

This paper examines the behaviours associated with managerial coaching and assesses the implications for leadership theory. Survey data from 521 line-managers are analysed to: identify the behaviours associated with managerial coaching; examine factors that affect the propensity of managers to undertake coaching; and discuss the impli...

Increasing leaders’ self-concept-clarity in the authentic leadership coaching group

T Fusco, S O'Riordan, S Palmer The Coaching Psychologist 2016

Introduction: It is suggested that authentic leaders can be distinguished by four self-related characteristics: ‘the salience of the leadership role in their self-concept, the level of self-concept clarity, the extent to which their goals are self-concordant, and the degree to which their behaviour is consistent with their self-concept’ (...

Assessing the efficacy of Authentic Leadership group-coaching

T Fusco, S O'Riordan, S Palmer International Coaching Psychology Review 2016

Introduction: National survey data from the US suggests that over the last decade there has been a growing crisis in confidence in business and political leadership, which is possibly one reason for the increased scientific research into the emerging field of Authentic Leadership – AL. Much evidence is starting to accumulate into both a c...

Authentic Leadership Development: Some Philosophical, Theoretical and Practical Dilemmas answered through Group-Coaching and the ALD360

T Fusco Philosophy of Coaching: An International Journal 2018

Among the legion of leadership theories that include Transformational, Transactional, Charismatic, Servant, Situational, Autocratic, and Democratic (Bass & Bass, 2009), it was hoped that Authentic Leadership would prove the positive root construct underlying them all. Consequently, it was almost inevitable that scholars in the field would...

Reflective practice for coaches and clients: An integrated model for learning

A Hullinger, J DiGirolamo, J Tkach Philosophy of Coaching: An International Journal 2019

The literature on reflection, awareness, and self-regulation provides theoretical and empirical fruit for understanding self-processing mechanisms that enhance learning, growth, and performance. A literature review was conducted to explore the potential of reflection, awareness, and self-regulation as developmental tools for coaches. Fro...

Leadership coaching’s efficacy and effect mechanisms – a mixed-methods study

P Halliwell, R Mitchell, B Boyle Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2021

Due to concerns on the efficacy of formal leader development programmes such as low learning transfer back to the organisation, there has been an increasing shift towards individually owned leader development programmes within organisations. Whilst leadership coaching is one of these and is gaining in popularity, further studies are neede...