ABSTRACT

Transformational leaders are leaders who ‘transform and inspire followers to perform beyond expectations while transcending self-interest for the good of the organisation’. ‘Discernment’ is defined as the individual and communal practice of decision-making that is oriented on the future (educational aims), conditioned by the personal qualities of leaders (purity of heart), and which emphasises teleological ethics as source of reliance. In line with this concept, a scale of discernment was constructed and tested in a research study on 198 leaders of the Catholic schools of Don Bosco in India. Transformational leadership was measured with an existing scale which is part of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire. The results show that discernment (as measured) is the strongest predictor of transformational leadership, while controlling for background variables (such as age, gender, religious background, leadership position, type of school, and private or government-aided schools).

摘要

变革型领导者是“转变和激励追随者超越预期，同时为了组织的利益而超越自身利益”的领导者。“洞察力”被定义为面向未来（教育目标）的个人和公共决策实践，以领导者的个人品质（心灵纯洁）为条件，并强调目的论伦理作为依赖的来源。根据这一概念，在对印度唐博斯科天主教学校的 198 名领导人的研究中构建并测试了辨别力量表。变革型领导力是用现有量表衡量的，该量表是多因素领导力问卷的一部分. 结果表明，在控制背景变量（例如年龄、性别、宗教背景、领导职位、学校类型以及私立或政府资助的学校）的同时，洞察力（如测量的那样）是变革型领导力的最强预测指标。