Social Exchange Theory (SET)

Social Exchange Theory, commonly known as "SET" is an old theory of reciprocity, which sets out to explain how exchange happens be...

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Transformational leadership and shared leadership

I have written about transformational leadership before ( here ), and shared leadership ( here ), but I have not talked before about how the...

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Getting to transformation

At the close of WW1, we shifted from seductive “great man” leadership (Carlyle, 1840) to trait theory (Fleenor, 2006). Where once we were bo...

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Transactional versus transformational leadership

Earlier this year I was asked by a student about the difference between transactional and transformational leadership, and realised that I h...

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