The GLI will be focusing on what constitutes authentic leadership at individual, team and organizational cultural levels. Preliminary assessment tools are being developed to identify authentic leadership for use in leadership development.

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Positive Psychological Capital: Measurement And Relationship with Performance and Satisfaction (PDF File*)

The GLI is working with GIREC, the Gallup International Research and Education Center (GIREC) - The Gallup Organization's not-for-profit arm, in building a 100-year project to interview world class leaers - leaders who have had an impact on 1 million people. Thus far, interviews have been conducted with Kofi Annan, Shimon Peres, former president Gerald Ford, and the Honorable Ralla Odinga.

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The GLI conducted a comprehensive study looking back over the last 100 years of research at studies that have examined the impact of leadership on performance. We completed gather all published and unpublished work on this topic for a comprehensive meta-analysis.

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100 Year Meta-Analysis Final Report

As a major input and outcome of leadership development, the GLI is doing theory- building, research and application on what it calls psychological capital(PsyCap), which includes hope, optimism, work efficacy and resiliency. A construct valid measure of PsyCap has been determined and research indicates PsyCap can be developed in short training interventions and is related to work performance and attitudinal outcomes in a wide variety of participants and organizations.

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We are conducting a series of three studies where we are working in collaboration with the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) in Longmont, CO and with the Behavioral Sciences and Leadership Department at West Point. MDF is a leader development program that is run by NIC for their mid-level managers. The primary efforts in this program involve applying components of Authentic Leadership to foster the development of leaders in the corrections field. The three studies within the MDF project are:

A study testing a proposed model of global mindset development, measuring positive psychological capacities, cultural intelligence, and perspective taking to understand what accelerates the development of a global mindset and how does such development change behavior. This particular project will ask participants to make a judgment regarding an ambiguous but internationally relevant issue. They will then review additional information designed to create a level of dissonance and to challenge assumptions of the participant. They will then be asked to reassess their judgment given the new information as well as to provide rationale for their stance. Overall, the study should guide theory to understand how a global mindset can be developed and what outcomes one can expect as a result of such development.

We are in the process of developing a theory of self-awareness that will be tested in terms of creating interventions to heighten leader self-awareness and testing its effectiveness in terms of leadership performance.

Conducting a quasi-experimental longitudinal field study to examine the construct of interactional transparency. Leaders are trained on interactional transparency, while the effects are measured upon the direct followers of those leaders. Specifically, pre- and post- measurements of follower psychological safety, follower role engagement, follower participation in decision-making, and follower trust in the leader will be compared to determine any change that occurs as a result of the intervention. Leader and follower performance data will also be collected. This study will be conducted at West Point on developing leaders embedded within their platoons.

PsyCap Projects - mapping out the nomological network, lab and field interventions, team PsyCap, leader PsyCap, individual PsyCap.

A study to examine the impact of perceived leader authenticity and perceived leader competence on the process of leader rational persuasion when a leader tries effect attitude change in followers.

Several projects are designed to explore the personal qualities and behaviors that make followers more or less effective in their role. Qualitative data collection is currently underway to examine how followers conceptualize their role and the types of behaviors that lead to success. The qualitative data will be used to develop a survey instrument that can assess various follower behaviors and outcomes.

This project involves development and validation of a measure of ethical efficacy. We define ethical efficacy as an individual’s level of confidence in behaving ethically when faced with an ethical dilemma. This project is a joint project with Dr. Marie Mitchell. This project involves a developmental intervention where students are involved in projects intended to assist in the exploration of the role of self-awareness in accelerating the development of students as Authentic Leaders.