The aim of this study is to asses the compatibility of employees’ views on leadership with the theories of implicit- and transformational leadership. The study also looks into what the employees perceive to be good and poor behaviours of a leader. Finally, the study has emphasised whether the employees’ account of leaders can be explained by management. The study was carried out using qualitative questionnaires to teachers at University of Örebro as well as assistant nurses at the University Hospital in Örebro. The results have suggested that the leader characteristic predominantly appreciated is personal concern. Connections can be made both with components of the transformational and implicit leadership theory. More or less the same categories have been discovered when it comes to good versus poor behaviours of leadership, even though the categories are each others antitheses. Only a few statements can be deduced to management.