BACKGROUND Transformational leadership is conceptualized as a set of behaviors designed to inspire, energize and motivate others to achieve higher levels of functioning, and is associated with salient health-related outcomes in organizational settings. Given (a) the similarities that exist between leadership within organizational settings and parenting within families, and (b) the importance of...

recent developments in leadership theory have shifted interest from earlier theories of charismatic leadership, that viewed the leader as extraordinary and the followers as dependent on the leader, to neo-charismatic theories and transformational leadership theory, which are concerned with the development and empowerment of the followers to function independently .because of the increasing noti...

Context: Leadership style is the manner and approach of providing direction, motivating people and achieving objectives. They are behavioral models used by leaders when working with others. Youth leadership includes both transactional and transformational leadership. Transactional leadership includes the skills and tasks related to leadership, such as public speaking and decision making. Transf...

The relationships between leader's power, transformational leadership, and followers' duty-orientation (Karma-Yoga) and spirituality (oneness with all beings) were studied using a sample of 471 managers from two manufacturing organizations in western India. It was hypothesized that leader's power enhances transformational leadership, and transformational leadership enhances followers' duty-orie...

This paper provides a new leadership alignment model incorporating various concepts focusing on leadership styles, organizational leadership, and situational strength. These concepts are brought together to introduce a leadership model, which looks not only at individual leadership and the effect of that on the organization but also at an organization as a system and how leadership behaviour an...

Social learning theory posits that one crucial way individuals learn how to behave is by observing andmodeling the behavior of salient others.We conducted a short-term longitudinal study using multisource data on 183 teenaged ice hockey players (M age=13.39 years) in 16 hockey teams to test the effects of 3 potentially salient leadership influences (team coaches, team players, and parents) on p...

this study aimed to find the relationship between communication skills and leadership styles. the methodology of this field study was descriptive-correlation. a sample of sixty five isfahan’s media managers who were chosen randomly participated in this study. the standard multi-factor leadership questionnaire and communication skills questionnaire were used to collect data. the collected data w...

Transformational leadership has both personal and professional domains. Key concepts and research related to transformational leadership are explored, as well as a framework for personal and professional leadership, in relation to leadership of self, leadership in relation to others, and leadership in relation to systems. A review of the issues and trends facing nurse executives results in iden...