In the South African mining industry, employee relations are highly complex and often characterised by violence and unrest. The purpose of this article is to determine if there is a relationship between transformational leadership and employee engagement at a mine in the North West Province. The methodology included a quantitative, cross-sectional survey design. The main findings were that a tr...

A meta-analysis of 45 studies of transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership styles found that female leaders were more transformational than male leaders and also engaged in more of the contingent reward behaviors that are a component of transactional leadership. Male leaders were generally more likely to manifest the other aspects of transactional leadership (active and pass...

Leadership style has always been a controversial topic in educational administration and management. Following the recommendation of the Education Commission to introduce schoolbasedmanagement (SBM) into Hong Kong schools in the early 1990s, discussions about the kind of leadership style that is appropriate for SBM schools have never ceased. The government holds a continuing belief that SBM sch...

The aim of this study is to investigate the different leadership styles of the workers and the influence of gender and culture on the leadership styles of the workers in Faculty of Technical and Vocational Education (FPTV), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). These studies concentrate on two leadership styles which are transformational leadership and transactional leadership. Transforma...

the relationship between transformational leadership behaviors and knowledge sharing in alvan sabet company is highlighted in this study. according to leaders of alvan sabet co. the target populations of the research are totally 47 persons. census method has been used in this research due to population size. one main hypothesis and four sub-hypotheses which have been obtained from reviewing the...

This paper investigates the effects of emotional intelligence (EI) and leadership styles on sales performance. The study involves a descriptive analysis of literature regarding emotional intelligence, transformational/transactional leadership styles and sales performance. A conceptualised model of leadership style, emotional intelligence and sales performance was created from literature reviewe...

the purpose of this quantitative correlation study was to determine the extent to which the role of leadership style preferences correlate with employee satisfaction with supervision among employees and leaders of an iranian oil company. this study measured preferences for each of five common leadership styles and examined correlations with measures of employee satisfaction. the styles studied ...

The challenges confronting Malaysia’s Research Universities in their futuristic movement towards world Class University are enormous. Leadership styles employed in higher education institutions play crucial role in achieving lecturers’ job satisfaction. This paper examines the influence of transformational leadership style employed by departments heads on improving lecturers’ job satisfaction. ...