The Influence of Family on Self-reflexive and Emotional Antecedents of the Transformational Leader

In the literature on organization and management, the term transformational leader is used for individuals who foster and encourage organizational and individual change. Some authors have proposed emotional intelligence as an antecedent of the transformational leader, but such leaders stimulate reflexive-cognitive processes in their followers, which makes it particularly interesting to analyze their self-reflexive capabilities. Given the family’s influence on the development of emotional and self-reflexive capabilities, we propose a model in which the existence of a leader within the family could moderate the relationship of these capabilities to the transformational leader, since a leader in the family may have been a reference for the leader’s vocation from an early age.