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The transactional and transformational theories of leadership developed by Burns (1978) and Bass (1985) are clarified and extended by using a constructive/developmental theory to explain how...
A systematic study, ranging from the salons of eighteenth-century Paris to the revolutionary cadres of the present century, views leadership as dialectic, synthetic, collective, and consciousness-raising and scrutinizes its causes and effects. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Leadership. by. James MacGregor Burns. Publication date. 1978. Publisher. Harper and Row. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled.
The transactional and transformational theories of leadership devel-oped by Burns (1978) and Bass (1985) are clarified and extended by using a constructive/developmental theory to explain how critical per-sonality differences in leaders lead to either transactional or transfor-mational leadership styles. The distinction between two levels of trans-
The introduction of transformational leadership generally is credited to James MacGregor Burns (1978) who used the term to distinguish between those who led through the exchange of perfor-mance for rewards (i.e., transactional leaders) and those who led by inspiring followers to aim for and achieve ambitious goals (i.e., transforma-tional leaders).
Historian and political scientist James MacGregor Burns has spent much of his career documenting the use and misuse of power by leaders throughout history. In this groundbreaking study, Burns...
This paper will review the conceptual and empirical development of transformational leadership as it evolved through the work of James MacGregor Burns, Bernard M. Bass, Bruce J. Avolio, and Kenneth Leithwood.