Today's organisations are bedevilled with various challenges, inclduing but not limited to leadership scandals and management malfesance at top levels making researchers question the existing and known leadership theories while at the same time looking for the kind of leadership model that could best suit the challenges faced by the world at this time. Authentic leadership has been suggested by researchers and practitioners to be the kind of leadership relevant for positive and desirable organisational outcomes in a turbulent and challenging time, as in our world today. This book presents how leaders and followers interpret and define the authentic leadership construct from their perspective in a cross-cultural setting