Self Awareness and Leadership An Exploratory Study

Abstract

The study is focused on understanding self awareness, transactional leadership, transformational leadership, servant leadership and transcendental leadership and the relationship between self awareness and these four leadership styles. The literature review discusses present understanding available in these areas and identifies newlinegaps for the researcher to study further. Based on the gaps, identified the hypotheses and are used for empirical verification via statistical tools. A questionnaire is designed for the purpose of measuring self newlineawareness, transactional leadership, transformational leadership, servant leadership, and transcendental leadership and to test the relationship between self awareness and leadership styles. The questionnaire was piloted and the results were verified for reliability before embarking on final data collection. These questions were reviewed by experts in the software industry, academia in the newlineleadership and psychology domains. The questionnaire was hosted on Internet and the responses were collected in a spreadsheet and used directly to upload into SPSS software for obtaining statistical results.