RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND HOPE. STUDY OF 100 CHILEAN BUSINESS LEADERS

Abstract

The relationship between hope and transformational leadership has been little explored and the few existing studies on this topic have been conducted in the United States. The present study shows the relationship between transformational leadership practices and components of hope. For this purpose a sample was collected from 100 business leaders Chilean inventory practices applying leadership Kouzes and Posner (1997) and the scale of hope designed by Snyder (1991). The results suggest that there is a direct relationship between hope and leadership practices. However, if it relates to be contrasted with demographic variables: education level, current time in office, by direct employees and personnel management experience.