{
  "title": "Ethical, authentic, servant leadership: really different?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/leadership-ethique-authentique-serviteur-vraiment-differents-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-05-21",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "These styles overlap heavily with transformational leadership; only servant leadership adds clear explanatory value.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Executive Leadership",
  "place": {
    "name": "Zurich",
    "region": "Zurich",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "The research",
      "point": "Julia Hoch, William Bommer, James Dulebohn and Dongyuan Wu (2018, Journal of Management) find authentic and ethical leadership largely redundant with transformational leadership, whereas servant leadership adds distinct variance.."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The limit",
      "point": "Conclusions depend on questionnaires whose items sometimes overlap."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Practical check in Zurich",
      "point": "List five expected manager behaviours and have teams rate them twice a year."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Wu",
      "year": "2018",
      "source": "Journal of Management"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 91,
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    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/leadership-ethique-authentique-serviteur-vraiment-differents-en",
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    "it": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/leadership-ethique-authentique-serviteur-vraiment-differents-it"
  },
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    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/zurich",
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  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}