Transformational leadership

About: Transformational leadership is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 18939 publications have been published within this topic receiving 600379 citations.

Leader identity as an antecedent of the frequency and consistency of transformational, consideration, and abusive leadership behaviors

Abstract: Drawing from identity-based theories of leadership, we examined relations of leader identity with leader behavior and perceived effectiveness. To do so, we employed multiwave methodology to examine the differential impact of leaders' chronic collective, relational, and individual identities on the frequency and consistency of their subsequent transformational, consideration, and abusive behaviors over a 3-week period. We also examined the relative importance of these leadership behaviors for predicting perceived leader effectiveness as rated by subordinates and peers. Results indicated that leaders' collective and individual identities were uniquely related to transformational and abusive behaviors, respectively. We also observed a significant collective by individual identity interaction, such that abusive behaviors were most frequent when a strong individual identity was paired with a weak collective identity. Frequency of transformational behaviors accounted for the largest proportion of variance in perceived leader effectiveness, followed by frequency of abusive behaviors and consistency of transformational behaviors. We discuss the implications of these findings for leadership theory and development.

Authoring a Second Chance in Life: Emotion and Transformational Processing Within Narrative Identity

Abstract: In this article, narrating a second a chance in life after an identity-challenging experience is defined as a process of connecting the self to the negative emotional impact of the experience and using it as a narrative catalyst for positive self-transformation. I examined this process, labeled transformational processing, with quantitative and qualitative analyses from 2 studies, 1 on narratives of difficult life experiences in midlife women (Pals, 2006b), and the other on the formation of causal connections between past experiences and self-development within the life stories of midlife adults (Pals, McAdams, & Machado, 2006). Across these 2 studies, the transformational processing of difficult life experiences was shown to (a) be a product of 2 distinct narrative processes, exploratory narrative processing and coherent positive resolution; (b) predict healthy outcomes in adulthood including maturity, well-being, and physical health; and (c) involve acknowledging negative emotion in the past and connect...

Role of transformational leadership in effective organizational knowledge creation practices: Mediating effects of employees' work engagement

Abstract: Engagement as an area of increasing interest has been discussed in terms of a wide array of organizational policies, practices, and outcomes. This study focuses on a specific aspect of work engagement and its relationship with leadership practices and the outcome of knowledge creation. The mediating effect of employees' work engagement level was assessed to explain the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational knowledge creation practices in the Korean business context. A total of 432 cases were collected from Korean for-profit organizations. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis and structural equation modeling were used along with basic descriptive analysis and interconstruct correlation analysis to examine the structural relationships and the mediating effect among the constructs. Results found transformational leadership to be a statistically significant construct that has an impact on employees' work engagement and organizational knowledge creation practices. Additionally, employees' work engagement was found to be a statistically significant mediator that explains the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational knowledge creation practices.