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Impact of Socialization On Transformational Leadership: Role of Leader Member Exchange
Within the last decade and a half, exceptional leaders who infuse ideological values and moral purpose into organizations and who have extraordinary effects on their followers and organizations have captured the attention of leadership scholars (e.g., Bass, 1985; Burns, 1978; Conger & Kanungo, 1998; House, Spangler, & Woycke, 1991). Variously labeled charismatic, transformational, inspirational, and visionary, these exceptional leaders have qualitatively different and quantitatively greater effects on their followers than the effects of exchange or transactional leaders. The study of transformational leadership in the organizational sciences has primarily focused on the personal characteristics and qualities of the leader. However, several contextual factors affect the emergence and effectiveness of transformational leadership. Characteristics of followers constitute one such contextual factor (Erhart & Klein, 2001). This paper attempts to look at the impact of followers' socialization on transformational leadership. As Bass (1990) observed, leadership can be attributed not only to the exceptional individual, but to the exceptional situation and to the interaction between. the two as well. The interaction between the leader and the follower has been studied under various exchange theories, Leader ...
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