Liderazgo transformacional en el desarrollo socioeconómico de los habitantes de la parroquia El Cambio del cantón Machala, 2021

Abstract

A transformational leader creates positive changes in the socioeconomic development of the community, he is the one who motivates, encourages and communicates to the inhabitants. In addition, he takes risks and has a vision that allows him to see opportunities to achieve team goals, directly affecting the improvement of the quality of life of people in the locality. In the El Cambio Parish, the incomplete provision of basic services, poor citizen security, defective infrastructure and lack of support for family entrepreneurship are identified, due to the fact that there is weak leadership on the part of neighborhood leaders, leaders and authorities of the parish GAD. The objective of the study is to determine the incidence that transformational leadership has on socioeconomic development in the inhabitants of the urban parish El Cambio of the Machala canton, in such a way that a methodology based on the structural-functionalist sociological theory of Talcoot Parson and Robert is applied. Merton one of the greatest exponents of this theory, the same one that facilitates understanding the structures and functions between the administration and the community. As for the epistemological approach of the study, it is the hypothetical-deductive approach that starts from general premises to reach a particular conclusion. The research work has a mixed approach, it is based on the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data. Regarding the techniques used in the investigation were observation, bibliographic review of scientific articles, a semi-structured interview and in the field investigation a survey was applied, the same one that was applied to 379 inhabitants of the El Cambio parish, which has with a total of 7159 inhabitants and 32 neighborhoods. The results allow to identify the weak transformational leadership, due to the little motivation, management and innovation on the part of the leaders, leaders and leaders. These are the main consequences that derive from a low socioeconomic development in the community, which are reflected in the low quality of life in the inhabitants, limited provision of basic services, insecurity and socioeconomic poverty in the peripheral neighborhoods. In addition, there is no participation of the population to provide solutions to the problems that currently arise. Likewise, the little cohesion, organization and communication of the leaders, leaders, leaders and community, do not allow projects to be developed to raise the quality of life of the inhabitants