Pam is the Chief Nursing Officer of a hospital and brings 30 years of nursing experience with her. She has a strong vision of the hospital being staffed with nurses who are engaged, educated, and actively involved in self-governance. She wants the hospital to apply for Magnet status within five years and has encouraged the nursing staff to obtain a BSN by offering a generous tuition reimbursement and forming an alliance with a local nursing school, which has agreed to offer on-site classes once per week to hospital employees. She has awarded nursing staff for innovation, and units have even developed friendly competition to find the latest evidence-based practice changes. The leadership theory most applicable to Pam would be:
