Over the past two decades, a new genre of leadership theory, alternatively referred to as $quot;Charismatic$quot;, $quot;transfomational$quot;, $quot;visionary$quot; or $quot;inspirational,$quot; has emerged in the organizational literature. There th...
Over the past two decades, a new genre of leadership theory, alternatively referred to as $quot;Charismatic$quot;, $quot;transfomational$quot;, $quot;visionary$quot; or $quot;inspirational,$quot; has emerged in the organizational literature. There theories focus on exceptional leaders who have extraordinary effects on their followers and eventually on social systems. Reachers refer to this new genre of theories as charismatic because charisma is a central concept in all of them, either explicitly or implicitly. But the most of previous research about charismatic leadership has been to define the correlations with job satisfaction, organizational committment and performance. Research based on charismatic leadership has yielded an significant findings concerning the effects of charismatic leader on follower`s outcome. Therefore these theories fail to motivational explanation to account for the profound effects of such leaders. To overcome this limitations, Shamir et. al(1993, 1998) propose the self-concept based motivational theory of charismatic leadership. Based on their research, this study investigated how charismatic leader` behavior affect follower`s self-concept and its related outcome variables. Specially, we explore the specific relationship between charismatic leader` behavior and follower`s self-concept. Therefore we conceptualized the self-concept as being defined at three levels; the individual, interpersonal, and collective levels.