Transformational leadership:
The term transformational leadership was first used by Bass (1985), who defined transformational leadership as how leaders behave to effect on followers and motivate them to perform above the standards. In other words, it is the leader impact on his followers who are willing to respect and trust the leader. Moreover, Bass stated that trust will boost the effectiveness of transformational leadership. Bass also submitted four roles of transformational leader to create a role model and gain followers trust in retune: 1.Individualized consideration. 2. Inspirational motivation, 3.Intellectual stimulation, and 4.Idealized influence. Later, Bass's diminutions were updated by Podsakoff et al. (1990) to six factors: 1.
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Based on the response that collected from 150 employees, a positive mostly significant relationship was found between the two variable because there was an insignificant relationship between two diminutions of transformational leadership (intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration) and job satisfaction. Although employees were satisfied with their university goals and work nature, the leaders should be reconsidering the work tasks and operating condition for reaching the desired job …show more content…
Research revealed a strong relationship between trust and transformational leadership, also it was mentioned that lack of trust will negatively affect the leading process and plans success in the school.
In addition, findings of this study mentioned that reaching the desired level of trust between leaders and followers is not related with time, it is only based on several practices made by the leader himself, these practices help to enhance and evolve trust between principle and staff.
Also, it appeared that several leadership practices were adopted by principal to reinforce trust between principal and followers such as confront problems calmly, communication with professors, students, and parents, admitting to own mistakes, give trust to gain trust, take care and listening to the staff, being role model, treat everyone the same way, work hard, keep work-related things privet, sharing decision making process with their staff, and committed and true to his words.