LITERATURE REVIEW
"A leader shapes and shares a vision which gives point to the work of others."- Charles Handy (1992)
"Leadership is a purposeful relationship, which occurs episodically among participants, who use their individual skills in influence, to advocate transforming change."
- (c) Michael S. Kearns, 2005
Organizations depend upon capable leadership to guide them through unprecedented changes. Leadership is the catalyst that enables organizations to achieve business results (De Feo & Bar-el, 2002; Smith & Blakeslee, 2002). Leadership is also the ability to influence others, and it involves both people and processes (Chung & Lo, 2007; Dhar & Mishra, 2001). When a leader effectively coordinates people and processes, leadership is deemed
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Numerous leadership philosophies include transformational, transactional, participative, and 42 facilitative perspec-tives (Robbins, 2003).
Transformational Leadership
Transformational leadership originated with James MacGregor Burns in 1978 and it is a con-cept in which leaders use idealized influence or charisma, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration to persuade followers (Hautala, 2006; Homrig, 2006; Judge& Piccolo, 2004).
Transactional Leadership
Transactional leadership originated with James MacGregor Burns in 1978 and later received much attention by Bernard M. Bass (Bass, 1999; Hautala, 2006). Transactional leadership de-scribes an exchange process, whereby leaders reward or reprimand subordinates for abiding or not abiding to the leader’s requests (Judge& Piccolo, 2004).
Laissez-faire Leadership
Laissez-faire leadership was first coined by Lewin and Lippitt (1938) in their study of young boys attending summer camp. Lewin and Lippitt described the laissez-faire leaders as those who did not provide feedback and those who gave subordinates absolute freedom.
Six
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Un-der this umbrella, Harry and Schroeder (2000) presented the disciplined method of Six Sig-ma: a method that uses extremely rigorous data gathering techniques and sophisticated statis-tical analysis to identify sources of error sources and means of eliminating them. Competence levels of personnel executing Six Sigma projects start at the Green Belt level and increase to Brown Belt, Black Belt, and Master Black Belt, which is the highest competence