A LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT MODEL FOR FEMALE PASTORS

Abstract

Recent scholarship on leadership advocates for generation of new impulses in leadership development. A more

comprehensive level of integration in the development of theory and research has been projected for perpetual

progress in the evolution of leadership as a science and practice. The guiding idea for integration centers

upon a leader-follower relationship that must be contextually emphasized in the leadership process (Avolio,

2007). This article presents a descriptive model for effective leadership development of female pastors in

religious organizations. Emphasis is placed on the leader-follower dyad; the critically of context; and the

need to comprehensively integrate those two elements in theory and practice of the leadership. Themodel

is characterized by its cognitive, functional,authentic, andcontextual nature as well as by the corresponding

constructs:(1). Leader-follower self-awareness; (2). Functional Competence; (3). Authenticity; and (4).

Context.