Title: Authentic leadership practices in the university setting: the theory of tomorrow

Authors: Mahmoud K. Al-Jaradat; Samer Khasawneh; Jamal Abu-Alruz; Omar T. Bataineh

Addresses: Department of Educational Foundations and Administration, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan ' Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan ' Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan ' Department of Educational Foundations and Administration, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan

Abstract: The study is an assessment of the level of authentic leadership among a random sample of 124 faculty members from one state university in Jordan. The instrument of the study is the Authentic Leadership Inventory (ALI), a valid measure with four components. The results of the study showed that authentic leadership is highly practiced in the university setting based on the perceptions of faculty members. Two components (self-awareness and relational transparency) exhibited high levels of practice while internalised moral perspective and balanced processing exhibited moderate level of practice. Further, results indicated that gender and experience had no impact on the level of authentic leadership, faculty members from science colleges had higher levels of relational transparency, and professors had higher levels of internal moral standards than did associate professors. The study provided a number of recommendations for theory and practice.

Keywords: authentic leadership; leadership development; university setting; Jordan.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIE.2020.10026531

International Journal of Management in Education, 2020 Vol.14 No.3, pp.229 - 244

Received: 30 Jan 2019
Accepted: 26 Mar 2019
Published online: 01 May 2020 *

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