{"id":253,"date":"2017-11-12T20:29:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T04:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/?p=253"},"modified":"2017-11-14T00:41:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T08:41:07","slug":"response-to-simarjit-shergills-post-on-authentic-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/2017\/11\/12\/response-to-simarjit-shergills-post-on-authentic-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Simarjit Shergill&#8217;s post on Authentic Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my response to <a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/2017\/11\/06\/unit-7-activity-1\/\">Simarjit Shergill&#8217;s post\u00a0<em>Unit 7 Activity 1<\/em>.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi Simarjit,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your post on ethical and authentic leadership. I really appreciated your critical analysis of authentic leadership, especially when you pointed out the paradox in authentic followership of needing to stay true to oneself but also needing to align with the leader&#8217;s beliefs and values (Shergill, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>I think the problem lies in the vague and various definitions of authentic leadership. Avolio and Gardner (2005) mention that there are many accepted definitions of authentic leadership (p. 321). Most definitions value high self-awareness and genuine relationships but not all touch on the high moral character and ethics of the leader (Avolio and Gardner, 2005, p. 321). For the purpose of this article, Avolio and Gardner (2005) regarded an authentic leader as someone who is highly self-aware, transparent, and ethical. Thus, when I was reading the article, I did not see the same issue with authentic followership since I felt that if the followers were also ethical, their values would naturally align with the leader&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>After reading your post, it makes me review my perception of authentic leadership. In my original post in this topic, I really liked this form of leadership. However, I can see how based on different accepted definitions of this leadership style, the implications could differ greatly.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your post, Simarjit!<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Avolio, B. J. &amp; Gardner, W. L. (2005). Authentic leadership development: Getting to the root of positive forms of leadership.\u00a0<em>The Leadership Quarterly<\/em>, 16, 315-338.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shergill, Simarjit. (2017, November 6). Unit 7 Activity 1 [Blog Post]. Retrieved from\u00a0https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/2017\/11\/06\/unit-7-activity-1\/.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my response to Simarjit Shergill&#8217;s post\u00a0Unit 7 Activity 1.\u00a0 Hi Simarjit, Thank you for your post on ethical and authentic leadership. I really appreciated your critical analysis of authentic leadership, especially when you pointed out the paradox in authentic followership of needing to stay true to oneself but also needing to align with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit-7","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}