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laissez faire management provided rewards that would be reciprocated by higher<br />

performance in the future.<br />

An additional hindrance to a contingent reward system is that the Party prevents most<br />

worker transfers among firms, assigns workers to their jobs, prevents managers from<br />

firing workers, <strong>and</strong> forces managers to employ all workers assigned to them, <strong>and</strong><br />

sometimes influence promotions.<br />

One Possible Structure <strong>of</strong> Charismatic/Transformational Leadership Dimensions<br />

Ehrlich, Meindl <strong>and</strong> Viellieu (1990) proposed the following dimensions <strong>of</strong> the Leader<br />

Behavior Description Questionnaire XII (LBDQXII) as related to Charismatic /<br />

Transformational, that is, change-oriented leadership leading to extra effort on the part<br />

<strong>of</strong> subordinates. The particular dimensions are:<br />

� Dem<strong>and</strong> Reconciliation<br />

� Tolerance <strong>of</strong> Uncertainty<br />

� Persuasiveness<br />

� Role Assumption<br />

� Predictive Accuracy<br />

� Integration<br />

The GLOBE study (House et al., 2005) proposed other components as comprising<br />

Charismatic / Value-Based leadership. Inspection <strong>of</strong> the GLOBE dimensions indicates<br />

that some <strong>of</strong> the dimensions represented as traits orthogonal to other traits actually seem<br />

to be opposite poles <strong>of</strong> bi-polar dimensions, such as Humane-Oriented <strong>and</strong> Self-<br />

Protective (Further pursuit <strong>of</strong> this possibility is beyond the scope <strong>of</strong> this project, <strong>and</strong><br />

should be investigated in subsequent research). Some <strong>of</strong> the LBDQXII dimensions<br />

appear to be highly related to the GLOBE dimensions, such as Consideration <strong>and</strong><br />

Integration. The GLOBE project proposed Charismatic Leadership as a central,<br />

universal trait <strong>of</strong> successful leaders in all cultures. Whether it is or is not, comparison<br />

with this influential project promoting an implicit leadership theory can be useful if an<br />

explicit leader behaviour set for Charisma can be identified. As I do not have an<br />

independent measure <strong>of</strong> Charisma in this study, I propose an additional hypothesis,<br />

Hypothesis, Charismatic Leader Behaviour: The LBDQXII<br />

dimensions <strong>of</strong> Dem<strong>and</strong> reconciliation, Tolerance <strong>of</strong> uncertainty,<br />

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