The literatures on both authentic leadership and behavioral integrity have argued that leader integrity drives follower performance. Yet, despite overlap in conceptualization and mechanisms, no research has investigated how authentic leadership and behavioral integrity relate to one another in driving follower performance. In this study, we propose and test the notion that authentic leadership ...

Across two studies the hypotheses were tested that stressful situations affect both leadership ethical acting and leaders’ recognition of ethical dilemmas. In the studies, decision makers recruited from 3 sites of a Swedish multinational civil engineering company provided personal data on stressful situations, made ethical decisions, and answered to stress-outcome questions. Stressful situation...

The concept of "authenticity" derived direct from the word "authentic" has various meanings such as “original, genuine, real, true, first hand, not copied, accurate, frank or representing the first author or source” (Ulukan and Ersen, 2014;17). Having been used in the fields of sociology and education in the 1990s, this concept has been questioned by Chan, Hannah and Gardner (2005) in terms of ...