CHAPTER 5

The Dark Side of the Transformational Leadership Paradigm: Why Leadership Education Curricula Need to Be Reconsidered

Fabiola Gerpott

Jacobs University Bremen and VU University Amsterdam

Sven C. Voelpel

Jacobs University Bremen

Introduction

Leaders can improve individual, team, and organizational performance (Gang et al. 2011), and have been shown to significantly affect followers, for example, with regard to their state of health (Franke, Felfe, and Pundt 2014), creativity (Dong, Hui, and Loi 2012), commitment (Tyssen, Wald, and Heidenreich 2014), as well as their work engagement and voice behavior (Cheng et al. 2014). Given how influential leaders are as role models in organizations, their education and development is pivotal for ...

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