“A Great Leader” A Biographical Study of a Political Leader Manuel

‘Way Kurat’ Zamora in Compostela Valley

This study is anchored from Bass (2006) Transformational Leadership Theory in

terms of how the leader affects followers, who are intended to trust, admire and

respect the transformational leader. He identified three ways in which leaders

transform followers. Increasing their awareness of task importance and value. Getting

them to focus first on team or organizational goals, rather than their own interests.

Activating their higher-order needs. (Bass, B.M. and Riggio, R.E. 2006

Review Related Literature

The leadership abilities of famous political leaders, statesmen, businessmen, and

military commanders have fascinated people around the world. The topic of leadership

has drawn the attention of researchers from different fields of study. While the literature

on leadership is abundant, the present study focused on leadership in Mongolian higher

education. Therefore, it was important to examine three particular bodies of literature.

First, research on American leadership theories is presented. Next, studies on

leadership in higher education are presented. Finally, studies that have employed the

instrument used to collect data in the present study are described. (Tsend, 2000)

Renato Constantino's work, A Leadership for Filipinos (1967) stresses the need to

define the qualities of a Filipino leader based on his analysis of the state of Philippine

society. He depicts the country as beset with the ills of "poverty, cultural stagnation and

political backwardness" and one "where mass vision is blinded by myths, where illusion
is taken for reality, where what the people think they want is not what they really need"

(Constantino 1967: 2-3). Constantino cites how Claro Recto's ideas and actions would

have introduced a new type of leadership that the country needed then. Recto planned

to become " a politician who would learn from the masses, teach. the masses, and

advocate nationalism. He dared to speak the truth, to espouse new ideas, to be critical

and to challenge assumptions, to break unquestioning attachment to unscrutinized

postulates (Constantino, 1967)

Great leaders are ethical stewards who generate high levels of commitment from

followers. We define ethical stewardship as the honoring of duties owed to employees,

stakeholders, and society in the pursuit of long-term wealth creation. Our model of

relationship between leadership behaviors, perceptions of trustworthiness, and the

nature of ethical stewardship reinforces the importance of ethical governance in dealing

with employees and in creating organizational systems that are congruent with

espoused organizational values. (Cam Caldwell, 2007)