The relationship between managerial power and transformational leadership

Abstract EN

This study investigates the relation between Managerial Power (Coercive power, Reward power, Legitimate power, Expert power, and Referent power) and Transformational leadership (Idealized Influence, Inspirational Motivation, Intellectual Stimulation and Individualized Consideration).

The topics of Transformational leadership and Managerial power have attracted considerable interest from both practitioners and academics in recent years This research aims to identify this relation in the Egyptian environment, and to highlight the main factors influencing Egyptian employees.

For collecting data a questionnaire was used, 211 employees from different occupations responded, different age groups and different work levels were investigated.

Hypotheses were tested and analyzed by means of a correlation analysis and a mean differences.

It was found that Intellectual Stimulation is the most important Transformational leadership feature in Egypt and all of the features of Transformational Leadership have a positive relation with Managerial Power in the Egyptian environment.

Findings of this research provide theoretical and practical implications for researchers.