Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 8.5, Maastricht University, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this research was to investigate the combined influence of the level of mental construal and the transactional-transformational leadership model on trust in the leader, on loyalty towards the leader, on employee motivation, and on respect towards the employee. In order to test the combined effect of temporal distance and leadership style, a study among 100 subjects has been conducted. A...