Lee, Soon-JaeBroughton, Benjamin J.2012-06-282012-06-282012-06Broughton, B. J. (2012). <i>The impact of authentic leadership traits on construction superintendent effectiveness</i> (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas.https://hdl.handle.net/10877/4207The construction industry suffers from declining productivity and lack of trust between stakeholders and among the public. Increasing technical, regulatory, environmental and ethical challenges face the sector and necessitate a new type of leader. Authentic leadership is a relatively new construct that focuses on a leader demonstrating self-awareness, relational transparency, an internalized ethical and moral perspective and balanced processing. This study uses the Authentic Leadership Questionnaire to measure construction superintendent's levels of authentic leadership and compares them to effectiveness ratings. There is a correlation between higher authentic leadership scores and effectiveness and this study concludes that authentic leaders are more effective superintendents.Text69 pages1 file (.pdf)enAuthentic leadershipLeadershipConstructionSuperintendentEffectivenessConstruction industryLeadershipThesis