Today the world has never been safer, war has never been more rare (there were no new inter-state wars in 2013) and developing countries are experiencing transformational levels of improvement in health, education and income.
In a recent piece on the Skoll World Forum for Pioneers Post Graeme Oram, chief executive of Five Lamps, provides a succinct expression of the prevailing social enterprise view on grants and sustainability: "... far too few socially enterprising ideas reach transformational levels of scale.
Hypothesis 2: The higher the level of transformational leadership the higher the level of perceived supervisor support.
As Unilever CEO Paul Polman has said, "Business must make a bigger difference to global challenges by leveraging its scale, influence, expertise and resources to drive transformational change at a systemic level".
Participants were asked to indicate their degree of perception about transformational leadership style regarding their leader (one level above) by using a four-point Likert scale ranging from 'not at all (0)' to 'frequently, if not always (3)'.
However, women leaders are often seen as more transformational than transactional, demonstrating higher levels of emotional intelligence.
Also, cultural perceptions and transformational leadership contributed significantly to the level of computer use by principals.
Inherent in this approach is the belief that transformational leaders inspire employees to greater levels of motivation and performance.
Transformational leaders are characterized by high levels of confidence, dominance and strong beliefs in their ability to control events (Bass 1985 , 1990 Eden 1992).
