Christian missions requires leadership that is theologically sound, inter-culturally appropriate and effective. Bernard Bass’ transformational leadership is a well-studied contemporary leadership theory and has the potential to be a significant theoretical basis for missions leadership. Transformational leadership must undergo a thorough critique before leaders attempt to apply the theory in missions contexts. This study is an assessment of transformational leadership theory for missions purposes. The theory is assessed from three perspectives: theoretical, theological, and cultural-anthropological. This research demonstrates that Bass’ transformational leadership theory is a sound theory, but one with significant limitations for Christian missions. Bass did not design his theory as a tool for Christian missions and it lacks key biblical notions that make the theory, as is, a poor choice of leadership in missions. Transformational leadership has been studied in many intercultural contexts and the general principles appear to work in these environments. Through the use of Hofstede’s dimensions of culture, this research demonstrates that Bass’ transformational leadership theory is a variform universal—the principles are maintained interculturally but with various mediations, modifications, and moderations. This research presents two new typologies by which to assess transformational leadership theory—the first is a leadership theory typology and the second is a leadership theology typology. These typologies may be useful to other researchers in their attempt to examine other leadership theories for use in missions. As a result of this research process, this study presents a roadmap for future research in leadership theory for missions.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-03T18:35:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dulciane_Alves_Luczkiewicz.pdf: 1466208 bytes, checksum: 50c6d7ca5e70b801f461de01e4c4b189 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-18 / The objective of this study was to analyze, considering the brazilian cultural diversity, if there is a statistically meaningful difference in the level of moral development of Accounting students from different universities. The study was based on Kohlberg's moral development Theory, which presents three stages of moral development: pre-conventional (stages 1 and 2), conventional (stages 3 and 4) and post-conventional (stages 5 and 6), and on Hofstede's Culture Theory, which presents the following dimensions: power distance, collectivism versus individualism, femininity versus masculinity, uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation versus short term orientation. The results were obtained through a descriptive analysis, ANOVA test, equality of proportion test, Pearson's correlation, confidence interval for average and p-value. The variables related to moral development, age, gender, religion and professional experience did not present statistically meaningful difference in the regions surveyed, what did not occur with the variable education, which proved to be a strong and consistent variable when compared to moral development. This study also aimed to verify if Hofstede's cultural dimensions presented significance between the studied regions. Difference was found in the following dimensions: power distance, individualism and long-term orientation. It is also possible to observe that the p index of moral development presents a statistically meaningful relation with the regions. Another important find in this study is that there is no statistically meaningful relation between the p index of moral development and the cultural values among the students that participated in this research in the regions surveyed. / Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar, considerando-se as diversidades culturais do Brasil, se h?? diferen??a estatisticamente significativa em rela????o ao n??vel de desenvolvimento moral dos estudantes de gradua????o de Ci??ncias Cont??beis de diferentes Institui????es de Ensino Superior. Para tanto, utilizou-se como base a Teoria do desenvolvimento moral de Kohlberg, que postula em sua teoria tr??s n??veis de desenvolvimento moral: o pr??-convencional (est??gios 1 e 2), o convencional (est??gios 3 e 4) e o p??s-convencional (est??gios 5 e 6), e a Teoria da Cultura de Hofstede, que est?? definida nas seguintes dimens??es: dist??ncia do poder, coletivismo versus individualismo, feminilidade versus masculinidade, controle da incerteza e orienta????o de longo prazo versus curto prazo. Os resultados foram obtidos atrav??s de an??lise descritiva, teste ANOVA, teste de igualdade de propor????es, correla????o de Pearson, intervalo de confian??a para m??dia e p-valor. As vari??veis relacionadas com o Desenvolvimento Moral, idade, g??nero, religi??o e experi??ncia profissional, n??o tiveram diferen??as estatisticamente significativas nas regi??es pesquisadas, diferentemente da vari??vel educa????o, que comprovou ser uma vari??vel forte e consistente quando comparada com o desenvolvimento moral. Buscou-se ainda verificar se as dimens??es culturais de Hofstede tinham ou n??o signific??ncia entre as regi??es pesquisadas. Constatou-se diferen??a nas dimens??es dist??ncia do poder, individualismo e orienta????o a longo prazo. Nota-se ainda que o ??ndice p do desenvolvimento moral possui rela????o estatisticamente significante entre as regi??es. Outro achado importante nesta pesquisa foi que n??o h?? rela????o estatisticamente significativa entre o ??ndice p do desenvolvimento moral com os valores culturais entre os estudantes das regi??es pesquisadas.