Developing authentic leadership as a starting point to responsible management: A Canadian university case study

• Corriveau, Anne-Marie ^[1]
  1. [1] Université de Sherbrooke

     Université de Sherbrooke

     CA.10.05.43027, Canadá

     
• Localización: The international journal of management education, ISSN 1472-8117, Vol. 18, Nº. 1, 2020
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • To attain sustainable development goals (SDGs), organizations need authentic leaders. Authentic leaders are self-aware and are guided by a strong set of ethical values that drive their actions. They create a climate of trust that stimulates the personal development of subordinates and organizational performance. Experiential learning is recognized as a promising strategy for developing the skills required for authentic leadership. This paper describes an original leadership course in management master's programs at a Canadian university. This course incorporates an intensive off-campus leadership camp whose main strategy involves collaborative action games. This article proposes a threefold contribution. First, it provides a detailed description of a proven educational approach based on experiential learning. Second, it assesses the value of this approach in developing certain key authentic leadership skills, including self-awareness, which is identified as an essential characteristic of a responsible manager. Third, it demonstrates that the intensive leadership camp constitutes an original and relevant pedagogical approach to foster students' learning of authentic leadership, provided that a rigorous process, including a reflexivity mechanism, is followed