by Tekleab, Amanuel G.^Sims, Henry P., Jr.^Yun, Seokhwa^ Tesluk, Paul E.^Cox, Jonathan Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies • Feb, 2008 • This study examines the effects of leaders' self-awareness of their own leadership on followers' satisfaction, self-leadership, and leader effectiveness. A leader's self-awareness was conceptualized as the degree of similarity between the leader's s...

Several leadership and ethics scholars suggest that the transformational leadership process is predicated on a divergent set of ethical values compared to transactional leadership. Theoretical accounts declare that deontological ethics should be associated with transformational leadership while transactional leadership is likely related to teleological ethics. However, very little empirical res...

As the most-studied form of leadership across disciplines in both Western and Chinese contexts, transformational school leadership has the potential to suit diverse national and cultural contexts. Given the growing evidence showing the positive effects of transformational leadership on various school outcomes as it relates to school environment, teacher and student achievement, we wanted to exp...

introduction: identification of the styles of behavior management as related to job attitudes and satisfaction level of management has been among the topics of interest in the past few decades. this study aimed to examine the leadership styles of managers (heads) and its correlation with job satisfaction among university employees. methods: the study population included all employees working at...

Handling Editor: Shelly Dionne Network scholars argue that one responsibility of leaders is to help their followers develop social capital.We suggest that oneway leaders do this is by encouraging followers to engage in networking behavior. However, we argue that such encouragement is more effective when leaders are seen as less transformational, because followers are then less able to benefit f...

Article history: Received 31 August 2010 Received in revised form 26 July 2012 Accepted 31 July 2012 Available online 28 August 2012 In this experimental study we integrate transformational leadership theory with recent theoretical considerations and research on core self-evaluations (CSE) in a contingency approach to leadership. We analyze to what extent high state CSE may represent a substitu...

This study looked at the relationship between the four factors of transformational leadership ± charisma, inspirational leadership, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration ± and the leader's preference for unethical behavior. Five ethical scenarios ± bribery, endangering the physical environment, lying, personal gain, and favoritism ± were studied using a sample of 100 pairs ...

Traditionally, nurses have been over-managed and led inadequately, yet today they face unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Organisations constantly face changes that require an increasingly adaptive and flexible leadership. This type of adaptive leadership is referred to as 'transformational'; under it, environments of shared responsibilities that influence new ways of knowing are creat...