Transformational Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility: the UAE Experience

Abstract

Conceptually, it was proven that transformational leadership is a supportive tool to the development of strategies that enable accomplishment of common goals. This paper will discuss the effectiveness of transformational leadership in implementing corporate social responsibility strategies. The study is based on testing and conducting research in only one organization in the field of sports management and organizing different sports activities for the UAE community. The study uses the Bass’s model of transformational and transactional leadership (1985) with focusing on transformational leadership model.