Leadership Styles and Personal Demographic Profile: An Empirical Study on Private Business Organizations in Egypt

Authors

  • Stephanie K. Jones Maastricht School of Management (MSM)
  • Khaled Elsayed Bekhet Maastricht School of Management (MSM)

Keywords:

Transformational Leadership Style, Transactional Leadership Style, Demographic Profile

Abstract

Transformational and transactional leadership, which focus on the relationship between leaders and employees, are the most recent development of leadership theories. Yet studies on the impact of demographic profile of a leader on transformational and transactional leadership styles are limited. Specifically, this contribution addresses two issues (1) the evaluative attitudes of the business leader towards transformational and transactional leadership styles (2) the relationship between leadership styles and personal demographics of the leader. The evidence collected from 85 of business leaders who are members and ex-members of the Egyptian Businessmen

Author Biographies

Stephanie K. Jones, Maastricht School of Management (MSM)

Stephanie K. Jones, PHD, Associate Professor of Organization Behavior at Maastricht School of Management.

Khaled Elsayed Bekhet, Maastricht School of Management (MSM)

Khaled Bekhet was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1967.

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Published

2015-02-25

How to Cite

Jones, S. K., & Bekhet, K. E. (2015). Leadership Styles and Personal Demographic Profile: An Empirical Study on Private Business Organizations in Egypt. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 20(2), 127–147. Retrieved from https://gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/3567

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Vol. 20 No. 2 (2015)

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