Abstract
D.Comm.
The globalisation of the South African economy since 1994 has emphasised the need
for a new form of leadership, with specific emphasis on authentic and transformational
leadership. By understanding the psychodynamic aspects that drive the
transformational leader organisations will be able to identify and develop
transformational leaders. A real need exists to understand the psychodynamic attributes
of transformational leaders and how these attributes affect their behaviour and
effectiveness. Most of the currently available research on psychodynamic attributes and
their relationship with leadership behaviour and effectiveness is one-dimensional in
nature: the research has investigated one or at most two, stand-alone psychodynamic
attributes of leaders and their relationship with transformational leadership behaviour
and leader effectiveness.