Towards Intrinsic Leadership: A Conceptual Review

Intrinsic leadership is developed based on holistic leadership philosophy where leaders should integrate physical, mind, heart (feelings and emotions), and spirituality. Leaders are able to integrate abilities of analytical, conceptual, emotional, and spiritual in their leadership processes. The purpose of intrinsic leadership to create a vision and value congruence, empowered teamwork among all stakeholders and primarily build an organization like a family so as to create engagement, trust, motivation and certainly have an impact on organization performance. Intrinsic leadership is a development of the concept of authentic leadership and it’s developed based on self-concept, spirituality, cognitive evaluation theory, self-teleonomic theory, and eudaemonic identity theory. Conceptually intrinsic leadership differs from previous leadership concepts which only rely on one or some of elements that leaders have as human beings. Intrinsic leadership integrates dimensions of cognitive, affective, conative, and spiritual of leaders in carrying out their leadership functions and roles. Finally, the process of organizational development and transformation through intrinsic leadership is also discussed in this paper.