The Motivational Effects of Charismatic Leadership:Charismatic Leaders’ Behaviors and Their Effects on Followers

This paper investigates the motivational effects of charismatic leadership. Charismatic leadership is assumed to have three core components: envisioning, empathy, and empowerment. A charismatic leader’s envisioning behavior will influence followers’ need for achievement, and empathy behavior will stimulate followers’ need for affiliation. Followers’ need for power will be enhanced by a charismatic leader’s empowerment practice. Additionally, the three practices of charismatic leadership and followers’ enhanced needs will promote followers’ satisfaction, group cohesiveness, and self-leadership.