Authentic Leadership for Democracy in Schools

Authentic Leadership for Democracy in Schools - "The main underlying value of authentic leadership is self awareness along with honesty, truthfulness, loyalty, transparency and integrity. These values define the main characteristics of authentic leadership, which this paper argues are the important values of democratic education also. Leadership is an art of inspiring or influencing followers in order to achieve organization’s goals. In any organization, there is always a need for strong leadership (Daft, 1999). It is well established in literature that the success of an educational institution depends on the effectiveness of leadership (Huber, 2004). In the late 20th century, various researches have appeared regarding leadership styles like transactional and transformational, charismatic, visionary and inspirational (Shamir et al., 1993)."