The Authentic Leadership Self-Assessment Questionnaire

HTE is a 50-year-old family owned business that produces small parts for the aircraft industry. The new president, Harold Barelli wanted to transform HTE. The structure of the organization was very traditional, was supported by a rich organizational culture and the only other president of the company was the founder and owner of the company. During the first 3 years, Harold made several major changes within the company. He had a vision that he displayed throughout the company, yet many employees were not sure in what direction he was taking the organization. The employees stressed at times Harold was insensitive to their concerns. After four years, Harold stepped down as president after his operations officer ran the company into a large debt …show more content…
I believe that Harold did have a vision for HTE, but it was not all that clear. He wanted to do various things to make HTE one of the best manufacturing companies in the country. When he first became president, he and a select few of his senior managers designed several major reorganizations in the company. Here when he first began, he made sure to include other employees into the new design of the …show more content…
The self-assessment questionnaire is designed to measure the authentic leadership by assessing four components of the process: self-awareness, internalized moral perspective, balanced processing, and relational transparency. The assessment uses two different scores, high and low. High being from 16-20, these scores indicate stronger authentic leadership and Low being 15 and below which indicates weaker authentic leadership. Self-awareness refers to the personal insights of a leader. It is how people understand themselves, including their strengths and weaknesses. Self-awareness includes reflecting on your core values, identity, emotions, motives and goals. On self-awareness, I received a score of 17. I am very self-aware in all of the things that I do in life. I know who I am and what I want in life. I know the things that I am great at in life and situations and I know the things that I am not so great at and am not afraid to admit that and ask others for help. On internalized moral perspective, I received one of my highest scores, a 19. Internalized moral perspective is when an individual uses their internal moral standards and values to guide their behavior rather than allow outside pressure to control them. I believe I received a high score here because I am a very religious person, I was always taught to be kind no matter what and to always treat