Contribution to Book
Transforming Motives and Mentors: The Heroic Leadership of James MacGregor Burns
Politics, Ethics and Change: The Legacy of James MacGregor Burns
(2016)
Abstract
A full consideration of human motives particularly relevant to leadership is prompted by James MacGregor Burns’ interest in Abraham Maslow’s hierarchical theory of motivation, and its principle that motives can grow, develop and change throughout the life cycle, along with other stages or patterns of development, whether they be cognitive, emotional and moral. The range of human motives, particularly the need to have value and be significant, opens to potential leaders ways of attracting followers to themselves and their causes. In the case of transforming leaders, as defined by Burns, these leaders and causes will engage followers in ways that raise both leaders and followers to higher levels of motivation and morality.
Keywords
- heroism,
- heroic leadership,
- transformation,
- transforming leadership
Disciplines
Publication Date
2016
Publisher
Elgar
Citation Information
George R. Goethals and Scott T. Allison. "Transforming Motives and Mentors: The Heroic Leadership of James MacGregor Burns" Politics, Ethics and Change: The Legacy of James MacGregor Burns (2016) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/scott_allison/50/