Effective transformational leadership behaviours for managing change.
- Authors: Vinger, G. , Cilliers, F.V.N.
- Date: 2006
- Subjects: Leadership , Higher Education institution , Transformational leadership , Transformational leaders , Multifactor leadership questionnaire
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://ujcontent.uj.ac.za8080/10210/378073 , uj:5660 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/2904
- Description: The South African higher education (HE) sector has been criticised for an apparent lack of leadership, calling into question the leaders’ ability to manage change as a result of the recent mergers of HE institutions. The aim of this present research was to establish the frequency of exhibition of transformational leadership and its behaviours and its level in this sector, including the commonly manifesting themes and strategies that transformational leaders, as change agents, utilise to effect change in their organisations. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire was administered to 190 HE leaders, followed by individual interviews. It was found that these leaders exhibit transformational leadership fairly often and that, contrary to criticism, they manage change fairly successfully.
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The behavioural and personality correlates of transactional and transformational leadership.
- Authors: Huysamen, R. , Schepers, J.M. , Zaaiman, J.
- Date: 2003
- Subjects: Transactional leadership , Transformational leadership , Leadership style , Creativity , Multifactor leadership questionnaire
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:6593 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/946
- Description: The article argues that there is a statistically significant positive relationship between leadership style and creativity. It was found that there is a higher statistically significant positive relation between transformational leadership style and creativity than between creativity and the other leadership styles. Creativity (fluency of thought and originality) can partially be accounted for by the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire. To demonstrate this in the study, the researcher uses, firstly the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire to identify leadership style, and secondly three measuring instruments that measure creativity. The argument is substantiated by the results of a statistical analysis of leadership style and creativity.
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