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hello this is Dr buj today I would like
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to do sessions on how to create an
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autonomous work environment using two
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theories first one is the
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self-determination Theory and the second
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theory is the authentic leadership
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Theory so using two those two
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approaches how can you create an
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autonomous
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workplace and why is it why is it
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important how does an authentic leader
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being an authentic leader correlate with
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workplace
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motivation particularly within the M
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Millennials it
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Engineers so that's that's what I'm
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going to talk about today uh to kind of
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give you what is the best way to create
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that environment where autonomy can can
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produce good outcome for your
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organization there are three essential
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things that must happen so that must be
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available in the workplace for somebody
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to have a high quality motivation which
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self-determination
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Theory describes the highest quality
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motivation has intrinsic motivation
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where a person is doing a task because
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they enjoy
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it and for that high quality motivation
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to
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occur three elements must be of
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available in the
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workplace the first one is
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competence or Mastery uh in different
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terms that mean a person has to
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feel competent in in the task that they
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doing if they have enough training they
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have enough enough experience to where
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they feel that they have a Mastery level
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of that
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task that's the first element competence
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the second element is having that
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autonomy having a choice like no you're
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not being controlled you're not being
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micromanaged when you have that
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autonomy there is a high chance you will
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you will experience intrinsic motivation
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or other high quality
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motivation and then the third element
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that must occur that must be available
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in the
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workplace to have a high quality
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motivation is relatedness so having
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relationship to your peers having
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relationship to your
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supervisors having that relationship
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having that quality
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relationship will increase your
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motivation quality so those three
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competence autonomy and relatedness are
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essential for creating a workplace
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environment that is autonomous workplace
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environment s determination Theory
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classified classified those motivation
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into different
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qualities and at the very lowest or even
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you can say it doesn't exist is a a
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motivation when someone H is
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amotivated they either don't
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have competence in doing that task or
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they don't value that task like even
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they if they can do it and they don't
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see the value of doing it then they will
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not be motivated to do it so that's a
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motivated person so whatever you do they
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not motivated should do
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it and then as you go into a Higher One
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than than a motivated you go to external
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regulation so that external regulation
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is yes I
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have because I'm doing I'm being
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pressure or I'm doing it
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because
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I I don't want to feel bad or something
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like that then you are being pressured
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to do that but at least there is some
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some entities that pushing you to do
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that and you believe in that so that
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external regulation then you go to
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interjection inter interjection
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basically just saying if I don't do
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this task I will feel bad about it so
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it's a guilt you you feel guilty if you
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don't do
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it and then now you start making your
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way into high quality motivation ident
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identification and integration so those
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two
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are high quality because now you are
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believing in the task you are Believing
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on why you doing it you have a buy in on
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on on that on that task that you're
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doing you may not enjoy
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it but you actually believe why you're
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doing
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it and then at the furthest right which
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is the highest quality of motivation is
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the intrinsic motivation where you doing
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it because you enjoy
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it for example for me
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I like going to the gym I like walking
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out like even if I don't have to do it
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I'll go and do that right so one can say
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it's an intrinsic motivation CU when I
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do it I I get enjoyment out of
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it um another thing
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is like editing videos I don't have to
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edit videos but that's something I enjoy
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on my free time so that is intrinsically
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motivated to me so it it's it's
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different from
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everybody but intrinsic motivation is
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the highest quality of motivation where
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you're doing something not because of
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external gains you're doing it because
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you enjoy it or another theory we want
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to talk about is the the authentic
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leadership
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Theory so we're looking at it when we
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look at motivation you're looking at it
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from an individual level right right but
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when you talking about
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organization a major or essential part
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of organization is
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leadership so if your leadership is
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creating a condition for you
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to experience high quality motivation
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then you more likely going to going to
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be motivated to go to work an authentic
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leadership is found
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to correlate with high quality
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motivation so what is an authentic
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leadership so authentic
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leadership
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is a Leadership Model that
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prioritize self-awareness the leader the
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leader has to be
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self-aware it also prioritize
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internalize moral perspective so you
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have to believe on that cost the
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organizational CA right you have a deep
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moral compass that allow you to make
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decisions so that's what it means by
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internalized moral perspective and then
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you have relational transparency you
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have a quality relationship with your
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followers uh and then balance processing
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of
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information which is a
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leader instead of making like decisions
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in a very manner that doesn't put into
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accounts multiple perspective a leader
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step
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back and analyze the situation
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objectively analyze it
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but looking at it from different angles
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before they make decisions right so the
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balance processing information is that a
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leaders doesn't make decision ra rather
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in um in a
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quick responsive way they step back
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analyze the situation the good and the
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bad what what are the consequences what
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what lead into it before they make a a
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decision which lead them to have a high
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quality decision-making process
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so that's what authentic leadership or
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authentic leaders does right they are
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self-aware they have internal life moral
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perspective they have relational
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transparency with their followers and
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they make decisions objective decision
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after considering multiple
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perspective
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so with
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that what happened when you have an
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authentic
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leadership or when you have an authentic
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leader what does what does the study
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says about it what what happened to the
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workplace so with this study by Zang and
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and colleagues in 2022 the study look at
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214 primary studies which
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involved one 1,
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196,000
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participants and this is a meta analysis
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so they went and look for all the
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articles that study about authentic
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leadership ship and what did they
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found I'm not going to go through all of
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them but I'm going to go through the key
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things the first one is leaders
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Effectiveness so it is found that
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leaders
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Effectiveness correlate with authentic
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leadership and then another one is team
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performance you could say the team
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performance highly correlate with an
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authentic leader then you look at the
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employees or worker job satisfaction you
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could see down there is0 54 which is
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pretty pretty high uh and then you go to
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leader satisfaction so as a leader when
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you are authentic leader what happened
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to you well you you experience a high
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satisfaction yourself so both the leader
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and the
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followers get high satisfaction when
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when uh when a leader is authentic and
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then workplace trust so people are more
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Trust worthy they they trust each other
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they trust their leader when when uh
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when they are being led by authentic
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leader and then let's look at the
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negative part of the organization so
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when you look at stress the stress level
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go down so negative
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point21 right uh counterproductive work
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Behavior like gossiping those kind of
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things they go down um emotional
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exhaustion like you go to work and you
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feel exhausted when you are being led by
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authentic leader that it goes down it's
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it's negative correlate with with uh
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with authentic
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leadership organizational citizenship
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Behavior what what does that mean that
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mean you go above and
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beyond your your immediate
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task for example if you
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are uh a mechanic a tire
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mechanic that would be your primary goal
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like to to go put in the tires
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but if you have an organizational
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citizenship
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Behavior now you go beyond that task you
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you still responsible for your task you
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complete it but you will still you will
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now go and help customers you will go
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and help other mechanics if they if they
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are falling behind on their task you
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take you volunteer for any other task
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that needs to get done so those
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behaviors when I when people are being
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led by authentic leader
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the uh organizational citizenship
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Behavior
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increases so that's that's the study by
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Zang and and colleague in
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2022 another meta
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analysis by Hamed in
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2023 also went and look for what is uh
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looked for in the literature well how
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does being authentic leader correlate
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with various organizational
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factors and he found
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that psychological
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ownership so you have ownership of your
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organizational culture task right and
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you are in you have ining motivation
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what I mentioned earlier having that
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motivation to go to work having
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motivation to execute your task when you
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are led by authentic leader it is found
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that your intrinsic motivation incre
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increases and then meaningfulness in
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your work so you you you find a lot of
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meaning in your work when you are led by
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athentic leader trust you are become you
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you trust your organization more you
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become more creative you engage more in
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your workplace when you are led by
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authentic
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leader another one is by Ayah and Wong
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and in 20 in
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2018 again you could see the the the the
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the how does the authentic leadership
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correlates with other organization so
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again job
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satisfaction it decrease emotional
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exhaustion job performance increase
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knowledge sharing so in overall when you
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are being led by authentic
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leader then you are likely to
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experience positive behavior or
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positive you are able to experience a uh
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you able to have a positive experience
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in the
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workplace
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so now with my own study what did I find
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that uh that authentic leadership does
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to to to the followers or to the workers
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so my study was looking at how does
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authentic leadership
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correlates with Molina it Engineers work
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motivation so it's looking at TH the
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those those motivation we discussed
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earlier those different qu those
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different qualities of motivation how
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does it correlate with those so I found
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that it cor it positively correlate with
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intrinsic motivation looking at the top
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positive correlated with integrated
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regulations and correlated with
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identified regulations interjected
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regulations and external regulations so
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overall my study found that when you
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have an authentic
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leader you experience all the motivation
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level from the highest to the
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lowest and also when I look at that he
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has no correlation with a motivation so
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that's what you don't want nobody that
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person doesn't care what you tell
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them my study found that authentic
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leadership doesn't have any any
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correlation with a motivation
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so now that we
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know that authentic leader correlate
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with with these different type of
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positive organizational
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factors how can a person that wants to
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be an authentic leader develop their own
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authentic
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leadership traits or
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qualities because authentic leadership
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says that any
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leadership Behavior can be can be taught
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and can be learned if if the person
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wants to do
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that so how can you do that if you want
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if you're a leader that says
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hey I understand there is uh positive
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factors that come with authentic
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leadersh leadership and I want to
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develop my own uh leadership uh style or
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my my authentic leadership uh uh factors
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what can I do so well you got to go and
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do the the factors I mentioned earlier
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self-awareness so how can you be
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self-aware as a leader you can go there
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are a lot
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of tools that you can go and assess
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yourself uh for me I went and did the
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character strength where I went to look
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at okay what is what is my leadership
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weaknesses what what are my
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strengths and now it give me awareness
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that when I'm talking to one of of my
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workers or one of my followers I'm aware
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that my weaknesses I'm aware where my
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weakness is and where where where my
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strength are so there are different way
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you can go and assess yourself and know
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who you are so that that that would
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increase your
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self-awareness and then for internalized
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moral
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perspective how do how how do you
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develop that as a leader it goes it go
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to your being
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reflective reflect on your
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past because the authentic leadership
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says that our moral compass is developed
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by our
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upbringing there are some things that
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when you are grow growing up they impact
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you at the deeper level so going back to
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those things and understanding them that
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will give you your moral compass when
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you making
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decision and then relational
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transparency this is where you are
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basically having quality relationship
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with your followers you are constantly
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uh working with them understanding them
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understanding their
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perspective them understanding you who
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you are and having that quality
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relationship with them that would
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increase your authentic leadership uh
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behavior and then having that balanced
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processing of information so having that
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objective decision making process a way
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to practice that is reflect back step
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back from situation understand different
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perspective and then make
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decisions
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so that's the way you can increase your
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authentic
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leadership Behavior or become a more
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authentic leader and if you want to go
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read up on
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more more information on this I urge you
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to go and look at
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the The Meta analysis that I mentioned
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earlier in addition to those there are
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these studies Olson and
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Johnson which look at us from the
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military
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perspective like hey this this study
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looking at how does Millennials versus
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Generation
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X like authentic leadership which we
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generation prefer authentic leadership
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between those two and for me I have
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several articles that I publish looking
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at it from the military perspective from
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uh so my first one is the what is the
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scientific approach to solving Army
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retention problem because a lot of
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people are leaving the army or not want
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to join the Army so I that article kind
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of explained what is the best way the
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Army can
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utilize authentic leadership and
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self-determination
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Theory to tackle that problem and then
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another one is the operationalizing the
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army people strategy that was one one of
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my article where I highlighted a these
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are the Leadership Model the Army has
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been using for a long time but how do we
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integrate authentic leadership and
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self-determination Theory principle into
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those uh into the army leadership
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philosophy and so again thank you for
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watching this is Dr B
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uh I'll go through the authentic
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leadership how does it correlate with
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motivation where workplace motivation
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how can you develop your own authentic
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leadership so you can be able to create
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an autonomous workplace for your for
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your followers or for your organization
