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...

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...

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...

This article examines the effects of the leadership style of the principal, “transformational leadership and transactional leadership”, along with teachers’ job satisfaction on schools’ organizational health. Specifically speaking, it investigates to what extent the variations in school health can be related to the principal’s leadership style and teachers’ job satisfaction. To this end, a Like...

Two studies investigated the relationship between transformational leadership, the meaning that individuals ascribe to their work, and their psychological well-being. In Study 1, the perceptions of meaningful work partially mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and positive affective well-being in a sample of Canadian health care workers (N=319). In Study 2, the meaning ...

human resources in each organization are the most valuable assets and they play a decisive role in effectiveness of that organization. managers always strive to optimize the utilization of these resources. on the other hand, without willingness of employees to cooperate voluntarily and spontaneously with the organization, it would not be possible to increase effectiveness and improve its perfor...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have revealed that nursing staff turnover remains a major problem in emerging economies. In particular, nursing staff turnover in Malaysia remains high due to a lack of job satisfaction. Despite a shortage of healthcare staff, the Malaysian government plans to create 181 000 new healthcare jobs by 2020 through the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP). This study inv...