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Managers’ resources for authentic leadership : a multi-study exploration of positive psychological capacities and ethical organizational climates.

Fladerer, M. P. and Braun, S. (2020) 'Managers’ resources for authentic leadership : a multi-study exploration of positive psychological capacities and ethical organizational climates.', British journal of management., 31 (2). pp. 325-343.

Abstract

While authentic leadership is highly valued in today’s business world, managers do not necessarily have the resources to attain it. Building on conservation of resources theory, we propose a conceptual model to address how personal and contextual resources predict authentic leadership. Study 1 analyzes the day-to-day variability in managers’ positive psychological capacities as personal resources in relation to changes in authentic leadership. In addition, it tests ethical organizational climates as stable, contextual resources for authentic leadership. In Study 2, we replicate our results on the between-person level and extend the research model by exploring promotion focus as a link in the relationship between personal resources and authentic leadership. Evidence from an experience sampling study with 89 managers surveyed daily on 10 consecutive work days (Study 1) and a field survey of 130 managers at two points in time (Study 2) supports the hypothesized role of personal resources and promotion focus for authentic leadership. In both studies, only principled but not benevolent ethical organizational climates emerged as a contextual resource for authentic leadership. We discuss the implications for current management research and practice.

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Status:Peer-reviewed
Publisher Web site:https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12396
Publisher statement:© 2020 The Authors. British Journal of Management published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Academy of Management. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes
Date accepted:20 December 2019
Date deposited:09 January 2020
Date of first online publication:03 March 2020
Date first made open access:04 March 2020

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