Track: Knowledgebase Engineering

Abstract

The crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic that is hitting the world today requires a transformational leadership pattern. This need is not only at the level of the central government or local government, but also the village government. The application of transformational leadership patterns in villages is very much needed during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in the midst of the lack of superior human resources, health facilities, disaster support infrastructure, and limited village funding sources. During a pandemic, the village head's transformational leadership is required to be able to deconstruct the old pattern of life into a new pattern of life in the midst of the threat of an economic crisis and the health crisis of the villagers. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the transformational leadership pattern of village heads in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. This study uses a qualitative research approach with a phenomenological design. Analysis framework using soft systems methodology (SSM). The findings of this study theoretically are a combination of the transformational leadership theory proposed by Bass (individual considerations, intellectual stimulation, idealized influence, and inspirational motivation) and the human capital theory proposed by Armstrong about the potential for social, organizational, and intellectual capital that can be mobilized to obtain capital. Humans who are glued to the culture can produce non-transactional processes to be able to realize the vision and mission of a transformational leader. As for the empirical findings, the transformational leadership of the village head during a crisis is leadership that can invite cooperation between villagers and communicates vertically to the central government or local government through political channels for the welfare of the villagers.