A study of four kibbutzim substantiates that there has been a gross misapprehension by the customary kibbutz research of the role played by their federative structure and job rotation of managers in the decline of their high trust, democratic culture and managerial creativity. Trust is an...

Leadership is an evasive phenomenon with problematic constructs; transformational leadership (TL) is defined by its results, which charismatic leadership (CL) may also achieve. Adding charisma to TL’s attributes generated the concept of charismatic-transformational leadership (C-TL)....

To what degree is leaders’ vulnerable involvement in employees’ deliberations essential for effective leadership of inter-kibbutz co-operatives (IKCs)? A unique semi-native anthropology of outsider-managed automatic processing inter-kibbutz plants and parent IKCs suggests that such...

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....