Chapter 4: Transformational Leadership and Spiritual Intelligence

Workers play an increasingly important role in the competitive advantage of a company as employment shifts from industrial-focused organizations to knowledge based organizations (Bean & Mills, 2005; Vandermark, 2002). Current emphasis is on development of transformational leaders who inspire workers to adopt new directions and behaviors that take an organization forward (Tucker & Russell, 2004; Von Eck & Verwey, 2007). Although leaders play a critical role in managing organizational change and over $50 billion is spent annually on training leaders of organizations (Raelin, 2004), only 10% of leaders change behavior as a result of training they receive (Georgenson, 1982). Advancement in this area could have significant impact on leadership programs and potentially lead to significant cost savings for business and society.