Leadership Transition

This chapter addresses the transition of leadership authority. This event occurs after an empowered leader’s assignment comes to an end. Leadership transition starts with a reflection and decision on the compatibility of the role’s conditions with the empowered leader’s actual behavior. In addition, internal and external contingencies are taken into account to decide on the continuation, change, or termination of the empowered leader’s assignment. Finally, to improve future leader selection and empowerment, a decision is made to abandon, change, or continue the criteria for leader selection in similar situations. The chapter is framed through transition theory and uses the morphogenetic cycle to explain the decision-making processes. The chapter ends with a model on leadership transition in balanced leadership.