Authentic Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness

This study is drawn upon the authentic leadership and organizational effectiveness literatures to explicate the impact of authentic leadership on organizational effectiveness based on previous conceptual and empirical research developments. The objective of the study is to synthesise the studies on authentic leadership, and to investigate the consequences and impact of authentic leadership on organizational effectiveness. The methodology of this study is by reviewing the researches on authentic leadership, its antecedents and consequences related to organizational effectiveness. The findings of the study is that authentic leadership is a predictor of all dimensions of organizational effectiveness; productivity and efficiency, morale and cohesion and adaptability and resource acquisition functions.