William L. Gardner

TL;DR: Authentic Leadership Development (ALD) as mentioned in this paper is an emerging field of research in the field of leadership development, with a focus on transforming, charismatic, servant, and spiritual leadership perspectives.

TL;DR: The authors developed and tested a theory-based measure of authentic leadership using five separate samples obtained from China, Kenya, and the United States, and found a positive relationship between authentic leadership and supervisor-rated performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide some of the initial foundation work for the broader theoretical framework of how authentic leaders influence follower attitudes, behaviors, and performance, drawing from positive organizational behavior, trust, hope, emotion, identification, and identity theories to describe the processes by which authentic leaders exert their influence on followers' attitudes and behaviors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model of authentic leader and follower development is proposed and examined with respect to its relationship to veritable, sustainable follower performance, and positive modeling is viewed as a primary means whereby leaders develop authentic followers.

TL;DR: The authors conducted an extensive qualitative review of leadership theory across 10 top-tier academic publishing outlets that included The Leadership Quarterly, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Psychologist, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Journal, academy of management review, journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Personnel Psychology.