Essential High-Moral Trusted Transformational Leadership in Co-Operatives, Problems and a Solution

Co-operatives literature has ignored the leadership factor despite its essentiality for retaining egalitarianism and democracy amid success and growth, and despite the tendency of leaders who succeeded by democratic trust and consent management, to become conservative oligarchic autocrats. Autocracy that makes use of market forces and hierarchy negates high-trust culture, engendering covert abuses of power to keep leaders’ high-moral image intact, concealing their dysfunction, autocracy and its causing democracy degeneration. Problematic trust and leadership concepts have also helped this concealment, veiling leaders’ role in this degeneration. Leaders’ timely succession before they enter dysfunction phase and become irreplaceable, is decisive for co-operatives, but no solution has been devised for it. Ideas are offered for devising a solution