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The Relevance Of Charisma For Transformational Leadership In Stable Organizations, Timothy R. Hinkin, J. Bruce Tracey
The Relevance Of Charisma For Transformational Leadership In Stable Organizations, Timothy R. Hinkin, J. Bruce Tracey
Timothy R. Hinkin
One of the primary dimensions of the multifactor leadership questionnaire (MLQ) developed by Bass and associates is idealized influence, or charisma. However, there has been very little empirical support for this dimension in a number of previous studies. We argue that this lack of support is due to the attributional nature of charisma and the situational impact on the existence of, or the need for, charismatic leadership. The current study supported this contention and provided a more parsimonious operationalization of the MLQ, which did not include the idealized influence dimension.
A Theoretical And Empirical Examination Of The Transactional And Non-Leadership Dimensions Of The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (Mlq), Timothy R. Hinkin, Chester A. Schriesheim
A Theoretical And Empirical Examination Of The Transactional And Non-Leadership Dimensions Of The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (Mlq), Timothy R. Hinkin, Chester A. Schriesheim
Timothy R. Hinkin
Bass and his colleagues initiated the empirical investigation of transformational and transactional leadership two decades ago. They proposed that transformational leadership is comprised of four dimensions, that transactional leadership is composed of three dimensions, and that an additional category of non-leadership exists (laissez-faire leadership). The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) has been developed to assess these dimensions and much has been learned about the positive effects of transformational leadership. However, far less attention has been paid to transactional leadership and non-leadership. The current study examined the theoretical and empirical properties of each MLQ transactional leadership and non-leadership measure. We first looked …