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  • 1.  The Emperor's Clothes

    Posted 08-20-2011 14:05

    Colleagues:

    Recent internet publications from the forthcoming Journal of Management and forthcoming Oxford University Press Handbook of Leadership edited by Michael Rumsey made it unequivocal that the body of research called "transformational leadership" (TL) is more appropriately called "administrator's rewarding behavior toward immediate subordinates".  The transformational connection has not been demonstrated in any empirical test (Hollander, in press).  What has been found in repeated meta-analyses is that TL correlated almost as high as measurement characteristics allowed with leader-member exchange LMX (Dulebohn, Bommer, Liden, Brower & Ferris, in press; Graen, in press, Hollander, in press).  As a consequence, measures of transformational leadership behavior should more appropriately be labeled the above.  Clearly, subordinates who have LMX alliances with their leader receive more of these valuable gifts from their leader's behavior toward them individually.

     

    George Graen

    /jag



  • 2.  The Emperor's Clothes

    Posted 08-20-2011 17:22

    An Emperor  is not necessarily a leader!

    And transformational leadership is more than passing a few rewards to kiss-asses.

    -rr

    From: "George Graen" <Lmxlotus@AOL.COM>
    To: MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:04:48 AM
    Subject: The Emperor's Clothes

    Colleagues:

    Recent internet publications from the forthcoming Journal of Management and forthcoming Oxford University Press Handbook of Leadership edited by Michael Rumsey made it unequivocal that the body of research called "transformational leadership" (TL) is more appropriately called "administrator's rewarding behavior toward immediate subordinates".  The transformational connection has not been demonstrated in any empirical test (Hollander, in press).  What has been found in repeated meta-analyses is that TL correlated almost as high as measurement characteristics allowed with leader-member exchange LMX (Dulebohn, Bommer, Liden, Brower & Ferris, in press; Graen, in press, Hollander, in press).  As a consequence, measures of transformational leadership behavior should more appropriately be labeled the above.  Clearly, subordinates who have LMX alliances with their leader receive more of these valuable gifts from their leader's behavior toward them individually.

     

    George Graen

    /jag



  • 3.  The Emperor's Clothes

    Posted 08-20-2011 19:28
    Rust,
     
    Team leadership is much more than ashe kissing as you well know. Please look up the references. I'll send you a copy of my latest statement of LMX team leadership.
     
    Thank you very much for your interest.
     
    Cheers,
     
    George
     
     
    In a message dated 8/20/2011 5:05:09 P.M. Central Daylight Time, rustyrae@comcast.net writes:

    An Emperor  is not necessarily a leader!

    And transformational leadership is more than passing a few rewards to kiss-asses.

    -rr

    From: "George Graen" <Lmxlotus@AOL.COM>
    To: MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:04:48 AM
    Subject: The Emperor's Clothes

    Colleagues:

    Recent internet publications from the forthcoming Journal of Management and forthcoming Oxford University Press Handbook of Leadership edited by Michael Rumsey made it unequivocal that the body of research called "transformational leadership" (TL) is more appropriately called "administrator's rewarding behavior toward immediate subordinates".  The transformational connection has not been demonstrated in any empirical test (Hollander, in press).  What has been found in repeated meta-analyses is that TL correlated almost as high as measurement characteristics allowed with leader-member exchange LMX (Dulebohn, Bommer, Liden, Brower & Ferris, in press; Graen, in press, Hollander, in press).  As a consequence, measures of transformational leadership behavior should more appropriately be labeled the above.  Clearly, subordinates who have LMX alliances with their leader receive more of these valuable gifts from their leader's behavior toward them individually.

     

    George Graen

    /jag