Yorkville University Leadership Philosophy Assignment: Unit 5

This report presents a student's personal leadership philosophy, focusing on authentic leadership. It begins with a description of authentic leadership, emphasizing genuineness and integrity. The student explains their alignment with this style, highlighting their rejection of adopting a false persona and their belief in the integration of personal and professional selves. The report then outlines the student's beliefs about leadership, including the importance of intelligence, empathy, adherence to rules, and coordination. It also details the student's values, such as equality, motivation, honesty, trust, and communication. The student explains how they apply these beliefs and values in their work environment, emphasizing their stance against unsafe working conditions and unethical behaviors. References to scholarly articles and a textbook support the analysis.

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PERSONAL LEADERSHIP PHILOSOPHY
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AUTHENTICATE LEADERSHIP
Description of the theory
This is one of the most fundamental leadership styles that have been able to gain much
popularity across various populations and organizations that are working hard towards providing
a competitive advantage in this modern world. Moreover, it is a type of management style that
involves quite a number of individuals who are capable of acting in real, genuine and sincere
manner that is very much true to the kind of personalities that they really are (Seidle, Fernandez,
& Perry, 2016). Quite a number of proponents attached to authentic leadership have been able to
postulate that this type of leadership is among the best positioned with an intention of inspiring
trust, loyalty together with a strong performance from different types of employees across
different types of organizations. However, issues pertaining authentic leadership were able to
come to the fore front of management studies in the past few years that was strongly
accompanied by the publications of quite a number of quite a number of research papers, articles
and even books (Sendjaya et al., 2016). This leadership style strongly believes in various issues
that are attached to authenticity that can be easily implemented by a given type of leader who is
capable of understanding what is taking place in relation to the entire situation. There are quite a
number of reasons as to why I am capable of strongly relating to this form of leadership style.
One of the major reasons as to why I relate to this leadership model is simply because I have
been able to totally reject the idea that I have to adopt a certain persona that is totally different
from my own. At the same time, I also relate to it simply because I don’t believe that my
professional self is different than my personal or even private self (Tang, Kwan, Zhang & Zhu,
2016). For quite a long time now, my major goals have always been focused towards delivering

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high levels of results most so the long term ones and this is what makes me to perfectly relate to
the entire leadership model. At the same time, as far as my personality is concerned I have got
high levels of integrity that are appropriately guided by quite a number of morals thus displaying
one of the strongest and reasonable ethical characters (Thakur, Angriawan & Summey, 2016).
Through this situation, I have been able to show various forms authenticate leadership across
various operations that I have been able to carry out under various conditions.
A leadership philosophy statement based on my beliefs about leadership and the
principles or values that guide me
My beliefs about leadership is fully concentrated around quite a number of issues most of
which are known to be originating from the leader. Firstly, I believe that leadership is all about
possessing high quality levels of intelligence thus trying as much as possible to be empathetic to
the needs of other individuals (Nahavandi, 2015). Moreover, my believe about leadership is also
that it should be able to major rely on the adherence of quite a number of rules and regulations
that are capable of providing appropriate and reliable guidance pertaining some of the procedures
that should always be followed in order to attain quite a number of objectives within a particular
time limit (Nahavandi, 2015). On the other hand, leadership is all about coordinating with each
and every personality within a given organizational boundary in order to perfectly understand
one another thus making it much easier to perfectly move together towards one specific direction
and be able to attain quite a number of objectives within a certain period. At the same time, I also
got quite a number of beliefs in relation to various principles that guide me when it comes to
undertaking various operations within the boundaries of leadership. I therefore place a great
focus in the principle that clearly states that clearly states that each and every employee is equal
thus trying as much as possible to totally eradicate any condition that is likely to be associated

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with discrimination within a given work place. At the same time, I fully believe in the principle
of motivation and inspiration to various types of employees thus making it much easier to
increase their levels of performance and productivity that is likely to be experienced within their
respective work places.
I place a great value in honesty most so in all the operations being carried out in order to
attain a specific goal. At the same time, trust has also been my major value and as a result of this,
I tend to believe that it is among the major things that are capable of keeping things into place.
Additionally, I also place my value in credibility that is capable of providing different
personalities with one of the best opportunities to perform appropriately. Moreover, placing my
value on communication has been a first priority since it has been able to bring a reasonable
understanding when it comes to handling of various issues. Additionally, I believe in the value of
being a team player since this is the only parameter that is capable of making various
personalities to put much focus towards one specific direction. At the same time, I also place my
value in collaboration that is focused towards generating quite a number of new ideas. Finally,
my value is placed towards the direction of respect, knowledge and quality that are capable of
providing a proper guidance in terms of how various activities should be carried out in relation to
leadership. As a result of the above information, I am capable of applying this philosophy within
my work environment by putting much focus on the beliefs together with the values since they
are capable of guiding me towards the right direction. In relation to the above values, I tend to be
against different issues like unsafe working conditions, the violation of safety within a work
environment together with different aspects to negative behaviors.

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References
Nahavandi, A. (2015). The Art and Science of Leadership (7th Ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson), 104-
200.
Seidle, B., Fernandez, S., & Perry, J. L. (2016). Do leadership training and development make a
difference in the public sector? A panel study. Public Administration Review, 76(4), 603-
613.
Sendjaya, S., Pekerti, A., Härtel, C., Hirst, G., & Butarbutar, I. (2016). Are authentic leaders
always moral? The role of Machiavellianism in the relationship between authentic
leadership and morality. Journal of Business Ethics, 133(1), 125-139.
Tang, G., Kwan, H. K., Zhang, D., & Zhu, Z. (2016). Work–family effects of servant leadership:
The roles of emotional exhaustion and personal learning. Journal of Business Ethics,
137(2), 285-297.
Thakur, R., Angriawan, A., & Summey, J. H. (2016). Technological opinion leadership: The role
of personal innovativeness, gadget love, and technological innovativeness. Journal of
Business Research, 69(8), 2764-2773.