Charismatic Leadership – The Double Edged Sword

Abstract

Several researches have been done in the field of leadership especially in the context of charismatic leadership. Charisma has both constructive and destructive effects on their followers. It has been hypothesized that charismatic leaders attract the followers on the basis of their trust, amazement which slowly leads to contentment where development takes place but with the passage of time this get converts into threat. Charismatic leaders use their power to control their followers. In this article several research papers survey has been analyzed to know about the aura of their leaders and to understand its positive and negative impact on followers.