Author(s)

Yaozhong Liu¹, Yudan Jing¹, Mei Gao²

¹School of Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
²School of Education Science, Ludong Univershity, Yantai, China.

To study Transformational Leadership from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience allows us to better understand the neural basis of its behavior. After a brief introduction to Transformational Leadership and neurological leadership, this paper puts its focus on going over the neurological study which is based on resting state and functional state in the respect of individual differences in Transformational Leadership. At the same time it has also clarified the neural basis of Transformational Leadership effectiveness. Based on the neurological research on the individual differences in Transformational Leadership and behavior effectiveness, this paper also puts forward some enlightenment to improve the behavior effectiveness of Transformational Leadership. In the conclusion part, this paper has discussed certain problems in this field and its future research directions.

Transformational Leadership, Individual Differences, Cognitive Neuroscience, Leadership Effectiveness

Liu, Y. , Jing, Y. and Gao, M. (2015) Transformational Leadership: From the Perspective of Neurological Leadership. Open Journal of Leadership, 4, 143-152. doi: 10.4236/ojl.2015.44013.