Paternalistic Leadership Style's Evolution in E-culture

Abstract

In this paper, usage of paternalistic leadership styles in e-culture is evaluated. With abilities like being catalyst, performance raising, communicating, helping, guiding, caring, influencing, resource organizing, organizations representing and team loyalty developing; paternalism may survive in e-culture where there are diverse groups of individuals operating on joint tasks for limited periods of time. The expected form of paternalistic leadership style in e-culture is tried to be identified. Related propositions are provided.