A meta-analytic review of authentic and transformational leadership: A test for redundancy
verifiedrich profile · The Leadership Quarterly · 2016
Banks, George C.; McCauley, Kelly Davis; Gardner, William L.; Guler, Courtney E.
What this article reports
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authentic leadership → transformational leadership
authentic leadership → job satisfaction
Models this article informs
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authentic leadership correlates transformational leadership
authentic leadership predicts job satisfaction
authentic leadership predicts work engagement
What the literature says about it
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supports “Research has documented the positive effect of certain positive leadership behaviors—including, but not limited to, authenticity, humility, and fairness—on work engagement [46, 67].”
supports “For instance, Banks et al.’s (2016) meta-analysis shows a strong correlation between transformational leadership and authentic leadership.”
supports “Empirically, there are also two meta-analyses (with fewer styles and studies than this one) indicating that work engagement is associated with authentic leadership ([73]), as well as with servant leadership, ethical leadership, authentic leadership, and transformational leadership ([66]).”
supports “This theory is relevant to the suggested topic as authentic leadership shares similarities with transformational leadership, particularly in terms of inspiring followers and fostering a culture of innovation (Avolio et al., 2018).”
supports “Authentic leadership has been linked to increased follower job satisfaction, task performance, organisational citizenship behaviour and performance (Banks et al., 2016).”
supports “Banks and his colleagues’ recent meta-analysis (Banks et al., 2016) has also demonstrated that self-awareness as a factor of authentic leadership is significantly and positively associated with LMX, job satisfaction, mutual trust and job engagement.”
supports “Banks and his colleagues’ recent meta-analysis (Banks et al., 2016) has also demonstrated that self-awareness as a factor of authentic leadership is significantly and positively associated with LMX, job satisfaction, mutual trust and job engagement.”
supports “In addition, there is extant evidence on the authentic leadership literature to predict direct and indirect effects on job satisfaction and trust in leader (Gardner et al., 2011;Banks et al., 2016; Hoch et al., 2018).”
supports “While Banks et al. (2016) and Tonkin (2013) discuss the comparative characteristics of AL and transformational leadership, several papers suggest a difference between AL and ethical leadership (Ling et al., 2017; Yasir and Mohammad, 2016).”
supports “Banks et al. (2016) contend that despite the fact that authentic leadership showed some dominance over transformational leadership when predicting selected outcomes, the relationship between authentic and transformational leadership is large in magnitude, suggesting construct redundancy.”
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