Future Focus Required
Although significant progress has been made
in studying charismatic/transformational leadership,
a number of areas still deserve further
attention. First, despite the important and
positive contributions made by charismatic or
transformational leadership in practice, questions
remain as to what determines or predicts
charismatic or transformational leadership,
or why some leaders engage in charismatic
or transformational leadership behavior and
others do not. Limited research has examined
leaders’ biographies or the role of followers
(Howell & Shamir 2005) as predictor variables.