The Leadership Challenge – for Educational Administrators

The Leadership Challenge – for Educational Administrators - "Leadership is important. An organization’s success is often determined by the quality of its leadership  (Greenberg, 2002)  . Changing business practices, such as the use of the Internet and outsourcing, have important implications for the practice of leadership. As opposed to earlier beliefs on leadership that assumed that leaders were born, current research primarily assumes that leaders can be made. ... This article will explore the research on the effects of transformational leadership on organizational commitment and explain the leadership behaviors described by Kouzes and Posner (2002a) that academic leaders can follow."