Bernard M. Bass

Bernard Morris Bass (born June 11, 1925 in The Bronx , New York, † October 11, 2007 , Binghamton ) was an American psychologist and professor at Binghamton University in New York .

Life

In 1949 Bass obtained his Ph.D. in Business Psychology from Ohio State University . After holding positions at Louisiana State University , the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Pittsburgh and Rochester , he finally came to SUNY-Binghamton, later Binghamton University, where he retired.

Work

Bass' best-known achievement is the union of the fields of industrial and organizational psychology. The organizational psychology he should, according to the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology have thus even invented. In the 1970s he wrote a review of James MacGregor Burns bestseller Leadership in which Burns introduced his concept of transactional leadership . Bass combined Burns' theories with his practical experience. The transactional lead remains with Burns. While Burns turned primarily to the ethical dimension, Bass examined the effectiveness of the method. He was interested in how leaders influence their followers. For Bass, the essential insight was how a leader developed his charisma and gained the trust of his followers.

He took the position that leadership figures on the one hand had to be role models, but on the other hand they had to challenge the status quo. From this idea he developed a morally neutral theory of leadership. Unlike transactional leadership, the transformational leader had to address people's higher-level needs. The leader thus becomes a visionary who can make his followers feel like they are serving a greater cause. In doing so, the leader relies on personal relationships with members of the retinue.

In the laudation for the presentation of the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award , 1994, more than a dozen of his important contributions to industrial-organizational psychology were mentioned, including the leaderless group discussion, which is still used today for assessment centers , survey feedback. , empowerment , film and computer network feedback, conditional amplifying (contingent reinforcement), education for participatory management and management with its groundbreaking textbooks of the 1960s and 70s that laid the theoretical foundations for some of the industrial-organizational topics.

In 1981 Bruce Avolio joined the professors' staff at Binghamton. He worked with Bass on advancing the idea of leadership as a skill to be developed. The result of their joint work was the Full Range Leadership Model . Here the characteristics of leaders are examined with psychometric tests and the development is operationalized.

Honors

In 1994, Bass received the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology . In 2001 a commemorative publication was written in his honor . In 2006, the Eminent Leadership Scholar Award from the Leadership Network of the Academy of Management followed .

bibliography

Bass has been widely quoted. His books and articles have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Japanese. Shortly before his death, he worked on the fourth edition of his key work, the Handbook of Leadership .

Books (selection)

Leadership, psychology, and organizational behavior (1959)
Organizational psychology (1965)
Training in industry: the management of learning (1966)
Bass and Stogdill's Handbook of Leadership , Free Press (1981)
Leadership and performance beyond expectations (1985)
Improving organizational effectiveness through transformational leadership (1993)
Transformational leadership: industrial, military, and educational impact (1997)

Articles in trade journals

Bass, BM (1990). From transactional to transformational leadership: Learning to share the vision. In: Organizational Dynamics, 18 (3), 19–31.
Bass, BM, & Avolio, BJ (1993). Transformational leadership and organizational culture. In: Public Administration Quarterly, 17 (1), 112-121.
Bass, BM (1997). Does the transactional – transformational leadership paradigm transcend organizational and national boundaries ?. In: American Psychologist, 52 (2), 130.
Avolio, BJ, Bass, BM, & Jung, DI (1999). Re-examining the components of transformational and transactional leadership using the multifactor leadership. In: Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 72 (4), 441-462.
Bass, BM, & Steidlmeier, P. (1999). Ethics, character, and authentic transformational leadership behavior. In: Leadership Quarterly, 10 (2), 181-217.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Bernard M. Bass. Obituaries. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, accessed April 22, 2018 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Biography of Bernard Bass. In: Archives of the History of American Psychology. Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology - The University of Akron, accessed April 23, 2018 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Mike Clayton: Bernard Bass :. Transformational leadership. In: Short biography on the Management Pocketbooks website. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Bass, Bernard M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bass, Bernard Morris; Bass, Bernard; Bass, BM
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American psychologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bronx
DATE OF DEATH	October 11, 2007
Place of death	Binghamton (New York)

[SIOPObituary-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Bernard M. Bass. Obituaries. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, accessed April 22, 2018 .

[OhioLib-2] Biography of Bernard Bass. In: Archives of the History of American Psychology. Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology - The University of Akron, accessed April 23, 2018 .

[ShortBioBass-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Mike Clayton: Bernard Bass :. Transformational leadership. In: Short biography on the Management Pocketbooks website. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .