Bernard M. Bass was a distinguished professor emeritus at the School of Management at Binghamton University and a member of the Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College in Florida (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2009 ). Bass was the founding director of the Center for Leadership Studies at the State University of New York, as well as the founding editor of the journal The Leadership Quarterly (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Inc., 2009). In 1949, Bass earned a doctorate in industrial psychology from The Ohio State University. Bass has held faculty positions at the University of Rochester, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of California at Berkeley, and Louisiana State University (Bass, 1990). During his career, he has published more than 400 journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports, and 21 authored books and 10 edited books (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2009). Bruce J. Avolio is currently Professor of Management, Marion B Ingersoll Professor, and Executive Director of the Foster Center for Leadership at the University of Washington (Michael G. Foster School of Business, 2011). Avolio earned his master's and PhD degrees from the University of Akron in 1978 and 1981, respectively (Michael G. Foster School of Business, 2011). Avolio has been a member of the American Psychological Society, the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology, and the Gerontological Society (Michael G. Foster School of Business, 2011). Bernard M. Bass and Bruce J. Avolio are renowned for their work on transformational leadership and their use of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire. Critique The purpose of the experiment... half of the paper... Journal of the Academy of Management, 45(4), 735-744. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.Eeden, R.V., Cilliers, F., & Deventer, V. (2008). Leadership styles and associated personality traits: Support for the conceptualization of transactional and transformational leadership. South African Journal of Psychology, 38(2), 253-267. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.Garden, M. (2010). Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire. Retrieved April 13, 2011, from Mind Garden: http://www.mindgarden.com/products/mlq.htmMichael G. Foster School of Business. (2011). Faculty Profile Bruce J. Avolio. Retrieved April 13, 2011, from University of Washington: http://www.foster.washington.eduSociety for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. (2009). Obituaries. Retrieved April 13, 2011, from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology: http://www.siop.org/tip/Jan08/23obit.aspx