OB Research Seminar - Yiran Guo, HEC Lausanne

The goal of the current project is to shed light on the role of authenticity in leadership. In doing so, we seek to question and move away from the current view of authentic leadership as a single concept that presumably captures leader attributes and behaviors. Instead, we test a framework of authentic leadership, according to which authenticity displays lead to perceived authenticity and ultimately to outcomes, such as follower performance and attitudes. In this project, we plan to conduct two experiments. In the first experiment, we seek to validate the effect of authentic displays on perceived authenticity. In the second experiment, we investigate whether authenticity displays enhance compliance with a leader’s instructions for ethical versus unethical behavior.