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The positive leadership

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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
The relationship between authentic leadership, leader-member exchange, and employee’s
psychological capital..................................................................................................................2
How to build psychological capital of some different types of employees...............................3
Why do emotions significantly impact employee’s performance..............................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
The positive leadership focuses on facilitating the best human conditions. It unlocks the
potential of the humans in the organization. It is grounded on the ethical values and uses
human growth mindset. The positive leadership drives to a higher level of performance across
an organization. The positive leadership results in bringing people together for a communal
purpose. It permits employees to step up in such a way to generate value for all the
stakeholders. The employees who hold positive leadership are reliable and obsessive
individuals and their work is formed by a value-based foundation. The value-driven
employees automatically enhance the performance of the organization even in the situations
of pressure. It is automatically likely to achieve long-term commercial and social
sustainability. This report focuses on the aspects of positive leadership. It defines the
association between authentic leadership, leader-member exchange (LMX) and psychological
capital. Further, it is defined to build psychological capital of some dissimilar types of
employees such as professional, administrative, blue collar and white collar employees. The
psychological capital states to a positive state of development of the employees. Finally, it is
explained that why emotions significantly impact employee’s performance. The emotions can
be of two types that are positive or negative. The positive emotions lead to a positive
outcome whereas the negative emotions lead to negative results.
The association between authentic leadership, leader-member exchange, and employee’s
psychological capital
The authentic leaders behave as per the deep personal values and opinions. Their behavior
builds integrity and gains trust as well as the respect of the followers. The authentic
leadership developed as a formal leadership theory in reaction to the stimulating and stormy
times, ethical corporate meltdowns and corporate scandals (Shamir and Eilam-Shamir, 2018).
The qualities of the authentic leadership are knowing and being true to one. They are totally
engrossed in their beliefs and core values.
The authentic leaders have a optimistic effect on follower performance. They can even
influence follower performance. The authentic leaders behave in unity to accomplish
openness and honesty in the relationship with followers. The behavior of the authentic leaders
is taken as guidance by the followers such as high moral standards considered by the fairness,
morality, and reliability. The values are shared with the followers through transparency,