Authentic leadership is considered a crucial factor for achieving success in various fields in the 21st century. Extensive literature indicates that the theory of authentic leadership has a positive impact on multiple aspects of organizations, such as organizational trust, commitment, identification, and citizenship behavior (Shie & Chang, 2022; Xu et al., 2023). In order to gain a deeper and more detailed understanding of authentic leadership, this article will proceed to analyse and compare previous studies in greater depth, identify the challenges, strategies and practices of authentic leadership. In conclusion, the article posits that the leadership strategies of authentic leaders are based on four core dimensions: self-awareness, relational transparency, balanced processing and internalised moral perspective. Authentic leadership enables organisations to achieve high performance in four key areas: employee job satisfaction, employee creativity, employee trust in the organisation and organisational culture.
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