Leadership has attracted a significant amount of scholarly attention in the past few decades. However, most research and theory contributions are to a great extent limited to accounting for leadership practices in the West (Littrell, 2002). This study is designed to develop an effective leadership model that works in the Chinese context. Paternalistic leadership, a dominant leadership style in an Eastern business environment, is compared with transformational leadership, a dominant leadership style in a Western business environment. The notion of transformational leadership was developed under the tutelage of Bernard Bass (1998). Transformational leadership is found to be compatible with collectivistic values (Walumbwa & Lwwler, 2003) and is believed to be appealing and generalizable to Chinese leadership situations (Chen & Farh, 1999). Other researchers have found that within Chinese organizations, leader behaviors are quite distinct from transformational leadership, referring to this leader style as paternalistic leadership (Redding, 1990; Cheng, 1995). The questions are asked, “Transformational or paternalistic leadership, which one is more effective in Chinese organizations? Is one type of leadership superior to the other one in the Chinese culture?” To answer these questions, a model is proposed to clarify the mediating effects of trust and harmony on the relationship between leadership style and its effectiveness, and to interpret the moderating effects of generation on the relationships between both paternalistic and transformational leadership with trust and harmony. Most theories of leadership in organizational behavior originated in the United States and Western Europe and are hypothesized to be universally applicable to non-Western contexts. Departing from this tradition, the current study proposes a Chinese culture-specific leadership theory, built on traditional Confucianism. The principle aim is to examine and articulate a culturally informed and warranted ground for a leadership model in the Chinese context. The results of the study provide a new perspective on leadership in the Chinese context by focusing on three dimensions of paternalistic leadership (authoritative, benevolent, and moral leadership) that are ignored in the Western leadership literature. The results also suggest that trust in the leader and harmonious relationships in an organization are key mechanisms for explaining effective leadership in Chinese organizations regardless of whether paternalistic or transformational leadership is used. What’s more, as the younger generation is becoming the dominant workforce, a successful leader in China should use Western practices and integrate them to fit in Chinese organizations in a way that also acknowledges Chinese traditions.

This study investigated the relationship between belief in coaching abilities (coaching efficacy beliefs, CEB), transformational leadership behaviors (TLB), and motivational climate development of current strength and conditioning coaches working with high school level athletes. The measures used were the coaching efficacy scale for high school teams (CES II-HST, Myers et al.,2000), the differentiated transformational leadership inventory (DTLI, Callow et al., 2009), and the patterns of adaptive learning scales (PALS, Midgley et al., 2000). It was hypothesized that CEB and TLB would influence motivational climate development, while coaches' background characteristics would correlate with CEB, TLB, and motivational climate development. The 60 coaches who participated reported an average of thirteen (SD=8) years of experience and 51 were Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialists. Coaches reported high efficacy, frequent use of TLB, and development of a moderately high task- and somewhat ego-involving motivational climate. Correlations between demographic variables and CEB, TLB, and motivational climate development revealed three significant relationships: years of experience with CEB, and professional development activities and athlete to coach ratio with ego-involving climate development. CEB and TLB had a strong positive correlation. Two regression analyses were conducted to determine if the outcomes of the CEB and TLB measures predicted motivational climate development. The only significant predictor was TLB positively predicting development of a task-involving motivational climate. Strength coaches can utilize the findings of this study help shape their leadership behaviors and develop a task-involving motivational climate that emphasizes effort, improvement, and cooperative learning and is optimal for athlete development and performance.

Small business leaders continually face challenges due to limited resources and lack of employees' engagement. Only 78% of new small businesses survive 1 year after establishment, and half of those fail within the next 4 years. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategies small business leaders used to increase employees' overall job satisfaction in Alberta, Canada. The conceptual framework for the study was transformational leadership theory. The targeted population was 10 purposefully sampled leaders of small businesses from different industries located in Alberta. Member checking and methodological triangulation were used to validate the data gathered through face-to-face semistructured interviews, a review of organizational policy documents, yearly reports, websites, and company marketing brochures. Data were analyzed using inductive coding of phrases and word frequency searches. Using thematic analysis, 3 themes emerged: the importance of supportive leadership that addressed individualized needs, necessity of financial rewards, and prominence of nonfinancial rewards to improve job satisfaction. The implications of this study for positive social change include providing leaders of small businesses with strategies that might enforce the sense of social responsibility and induce them to give back to the community by training new and existing employees and supporting communities through fostering self-development and self-support along with engendering pride in creativity.

Leaders of nonprofit organizations and researchers who focus on organizational performance affirm that improved youth programs are a crucial component of performance excellence and organizational sustainability. As seen through the lens of transformational leadership theory, the purpose of this single-case study was to explore the strategies used by 3 executive-level leaders/managers of a nonprofit organization in the southwestern region of the United States to equip families to overcome poverty, conquer homelessness, and achieve self-sufficiency. Data collected from semistructured interviews, organizational documents, and publicly available resources were manually coded and then analyzed. The 2 key themes that emerged were effective collaboration for strategy development and leveraging core competencies. Strategy development could help leaders of nonprofit organizations that serve children and families (a) increase enrollment and improve skills of program participants, (b) improve children's behavior and engagement in the community, and (c) improve action plan completion. The implication of this study for positive social change includes the potential to help leaders of nonprofit organizations equip youth with job skills to decrease the cycle of homelessness.

Abstract To develop optimal leadership effectiveness under complicated circumstances is the priority of a leader . A higher result can be created if the leader master his or her leadership style. Since the 1980s, the research about leadership has emphasized on recent theories such as transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and charm leadership. In this research , the former two types are applied to investigate the relationship between them. Aim at salespeople, the questionnaires are delivered by e-mails, mails and personally. Among the 400 questionnaires, 266 copies have been took back and 218 copies are available. The conclusions are: (1) There is no obvious relationship among transformational leadership, transactional leadership and personal completion. (2) There is positive and obvious relationship among transformational leadership, transactional leadership and group completion. Generally speaking, the former is superior to the later. (3) There is positive and obvious relationship among transformational leadership,transactional leadership and organization promise. Generally speaking, the former is superior to the later. (4) There is positive and obvious relationship among transformational leadership, transactional leadership and leadership. Generally speaking, the former is inferior to the later. (5) Part of the effectiveness that transformational leadership causes is superior to that of transactional leadership.

When facing the highly competitive environment in high-tech industry, how to excite the employee¡¦s job involvement and drive their performance turns to be an important issue. Especially when the stock bonus is no longer a key stimulation tool to the employer, leadership will be and important part to make human resource more effective. The major purpose of this research is to examining the effect of transformational leadership on job performance and use job involvement as mediating factor. This research was proceeded by questionnaire to the sampling objects of high-tech enterprises. The result verified the hypotheses below. 1.Transformational leadership effects positively on job involvement. 2.Job involvement effects positively on job performance. 3.Transformational leadership effects positively on job performance. 4.Job involvement has mediating effect between transformational leadership to job performance.

In recent years we have witnessed an increasing integration of women into positions where leadership is exercised. Although some studies show that less than 10% of leaders are women, they are making their headway in the difficult field of leadership which, some years ago, was totally dominated by men. Several authors have analyzed the female’s skills in developing leadership roles. Some of them have concluded that there are differences with respect to male leadership. But others are not so clear and talk about gender equality in exercising leadership roles. Moreover, a new style of leadership has been implemented in organizations, that is, transformational leadership. This style together with the latest developments in leadership has been analyzed from a gender perspective. Several experts in this issue have come to ensure the highest skill for women to develop this style of leadership, which is based on communication, empowerment and followership. How do stereotypes cloud our claims? How does literature affirm or deny the existence of gender differences in leadership? What do women writers specializing in leadership study over the past three years? What are the latest developments in leadership? This work features a series of studies on the subject made in the last twenty years. This along with opinions of today’s leaders, insufflate fresh air to the results and invite the reader to enter in the interesting but slippery field of leadership from a different perspective.

The Study of Relationship among Transformational Leadership, Organization- al Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior : The Evidence from Southern District Branch Chunghwa Telecommunication, Corporation. . Abstract In the public sector, its expending organization of human resource is restricted by expenditure examination; therefore it cannot be as flexible as the private sector. In the stimulating aspect, the system of the public sector is more rigid than the private sector; therefore, for this phenomenon, how to lead employees of the public sector efficiently to create achievement is one of the factors that the public sector must consider for success Chunghwa Telephone is the leader of telecommunication in the public sector. The mission of telecommunication in gross output value of Taiwan high-tech manufacture is very significant. Telecommunication is the leader of the top ten businesses, and thus we can realize the importance of telecommunication. The human resource management of telecommunication is extremely different from the traditional manufacture. Chunghwa Telephone, the leader of telecommunication, leads employees towards achievement and stimulates them having commitment for the organization. Therefore, this research is relatively for the employees who proceed to change leading, commitment of organization and behavior of organizing citizen in the south branch of Chunghwa Telephone. The result of this research indicate that: 1. Employees of different attribute (sex, age, marriage, family of children, education, seniority, position, people dealt with from work) have part discrepancies on transformational leadership, organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior. To get the result from t and One-way ANOVA examine. 2. Transformational leadership, organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior have positive relation. 3. Transformational leadership has positive relation with organizational commitment. 4. Transformational leadership has positive relation with organizational citizenship behavior. 5. Organizational commitment has positive relation with organizational citizenship behavior.. 6. The organizational commitment is the important key to enhance the positive relation between transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior. According to the above results of the research, the command for the public telecommunication is that the leader should improve his way of changing management, have more commitments of organization to workers, and then make workers show up the behavior of organizing citizen to approach to the achievement of public telecommunication. A command of later researchers is to increase changes of research, have comparison between the private telecommunication and public department, amending measurement and proceed certain researches. Key words: Transformational leadership, Organizational commitment, Organizational citizenship behavior.

The product value of electronic industry in Taiwan ,processes the significant position .It is extremely different traditional manufacture industry ,and service distinguish with electronic human Resource (HR) work. How can the leader manage the employee and the business thus the future strive toward to complete the mission under this complex attribute. It is necessary for him to inspire employees carry out organizational commitment and organization citizenship behavior . Hence researcher proceeds the research of the relationship among the transformational leadership , organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior in electronic industry in Taiwan . The result of this research indicate that: 1. Employees of different attribute (sexuality ,age,marriage ,children ,tenure ,and positions) have no discrimination on transformational leadership .It expresses a lot of diversification in education. Inspiration vision where are top level transformed .It the mean while the education above college is higher in organizational citizenship than senior ¡Vhigh-school educated. 2. Transformational leadership offers a positive relation with organizational commitment. 3. Transformational leadership showers positive relation with organizational citizenship behavior . 4. Organizational commitment presents positive relation with organizational citizenship behavior. 5. Transformational leadership and organizational commitment presents positive relation with organizational citizenship behavior. 6. The organizational commitment is the important factor to enhance the positive relation between transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior. Considering the results mentional above , some suggestions are made for electronic industry and further research in this field.

The development of the western leadership theories is currently toward ¡§Transformational Leadership.¡¨ However, owing to the culture differences, the results testified in the theory of ¡§Transformational Leadership¡¨ are not completely suitable for Chinese society. Thus, domestic scholars develop the theory of ¡§Paternalistic Leadership¡¨ according to tradition of Chinese culture and family system. In addition, the coordinate culture of military units focuses on rank submission, guide, and help. Although the difference of authority between commanders and subordinates is large, the leaders still have to need the nurture of ¡§Convincing People by Good¡¨ which is exactly the ideal of ¡§Paternalistic Leadership¡¨; however, the formations of the earth village concepts and diversified thoughts of the e-age have forced military leaders to face the issue how to adapt themselves to improve leadership efficiency. Therefore, related research is required. The method of two standardized phases is applied to this research. For the first phase, the use of individual interview is for qualitative analysis, and then that of questionnaires is for quantitative analysis. Conclusions of this research show as follows: 1. ¡§Paternalistic Leadership¡¨ style is more appropriate for military units. ¡§Authoritarian Leadership¡¨ only has negative influence. 2. The core of ¡§Paternalistic Leadership¡¨ is ¡§Lead People by Good.¡¨ Meanwhile, ¡§Unselfish Model¡¨ is the key to ¡§Lead People by Good.¡¨ 3. As the diverse perspectives between leaders and subordinates, they have different feeling for ¡§Alternating Weakness with Severity.¡¨ 4. The situation of depreciating subordinates¡¦ contribution by leaders of military units is not found. Finally, the following suggestions have been made to effectively enhance leadership efficiency of military members: 1. Just, equitable, and open conduct. 2. The attitude of real consideration and respect. 3. Effective communication and identification acquisition. 4. Lifetime learning and thorough self-examination.