Toward Developing Authentic Leadership: Team-Based Simulations

Although there is a consensus that authentic leadership should be
an essential component in educational leadership, no study to date has ever
tried to find whether team-based simulations may promote authentic leadership.
The purpose of this study was to identify whether principal trainees can develop
authentic leadership through ethical decision making in team-based simulations
of cases that they had experienced. Fifty principal trainees volunteered
to participate in the study. A four-dimension model of authentic leadership was
constructed, which may suggest that leadership programs should include teambased
simulations in ethical contexts to develop the authentic leadership of the
future.