Abstract
Presents a summary of theoretical leader behaviours and effects and the empirical findings relevant to a new genre of leadership theory. The new paradigm, emerging over the last decade and a half, focuses on outstanding leaders, variously referred to as charismatic, visionary, inspirational or transformational and derives from approximately 25 empirical investigations, based on a wide variety of samples and methods and conducted in a variety of cultures, collectively. Strong convergence among the findings of these studies indicates that the new genre of theory, when operationalized in a number of ways, accounts for substantial variance in leader and follower effectiveness, follower motivation, commitment and satisfaction as well as team performance. Discusses the relevance of such leadership to service-producing organizations.

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