Can Transformational Leadership Enhancing Performance Effectively in Forest Fires Disaster Management?

Abstract

Bass states that transformational leadership successfully applies in the private sector. However, this research elaborates that transformational leaders are effective in the public sector particularly in the emergency situation. A Head of the Local Disaster Management Agency in Wonosobo Regency shows that he was able to fight the forest fires that occurred in the regency through embracing transformational leadership. Under his leadership, the Agency Handling Disaster Management in Wonosobo Regency, displays efforts and willingness to overcome forest fires promptly within 2019. This qualitative research examines the role of a transformational leader in disaster management and how the individual guides the staff and the volunteers as well as optimizes existing technology to work efficiently towards problem-solving to perform as a team through team processes. The results discovered that his role through his presence was to be perceived when the forest fires occurred.