Essential high-moral trusted transformational leadership in democratic work organizations, problems and a solution
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Organizational democracy literature has ignored leadership despite its essentiality for retaining democracy amid success and growth, and despite the tendency of leaders who used democratic trust and consent management, to become conservative autocrats. Autocracy that makes use of market forces and hierarchy negates high-trust culture, engendering covert abuses of power to keep leaders’ high-moral image intact, concealing dysfunction and helping to divert seekers of the causes of democracy degeneration. Problematic trust and leadership concepts have also helped this diversion, keeping leaders’ role in the degeneration of democracy unknown. Leaders’ timely succession before they enter dysfunction phase and become irreplaceable is decisive for workplace democracy, but no solution has been devised for it. Ideas are offered for devising a solution.