2.3.1 Advantages of Transformational Leadership
Given the rapid rate of change in organisations in today’s turbulent economic environment, it is crucial for leadership to be both flexible and adaptable. Given the uncertain environment within which organisations operate, the practice of transformational leadership style is vitally important as it will ensure the workforce is directed towards the future. It will also enable the workforce to think in new ways and become more creative and innovative which is imperative in todays ‘new world of work’ and digital economy within which organisations operate.
Given the positive effects which this type of leadership brings on followers’, it leads to increased motivation and exceptionally performance.
2.3.2 Disadvantages of Transformational Leadership
Although transformational leadership styles have consistently shown advantages not only in shaping followers and achieving the organisations end goals and/or outcomes, there are also certain limitations of transformational leadership. Firstly, transformational leadership is based on the ability of the leader to inspire a set of followers to achieve an end result, in this case, the organisations goals. Furthermore, the Store Manager position in the retail sector has traditionally been a performance driven role where outcomes are driven through reward based performance.
2.4. TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP
Transactional leadership is associated with an authoritative and bureaucratic leadership
Two of the theories of leadership are transactional and transformational. Transactional leadership is setting clear expectations of an individual and using rewards or punishment to achieve results, while transformational leadership is identifying the need for change and trying to achieve the change. Two Canadian public administrative leaders who show these leadership skills were Tommy Douglas and Sir George Arthur French. Tommy Douglas was able to show transformational leadership through creating healthcare, Canada-wide pension plan and bargaining rights for civil servants; while Sir George Arthur French was able to show transactional leadership by leading his men across western |Canada, and he showed transformation leadership by challenging the Canadian government. Tommy Douglas would have been seen as a great leader in the Behavioural Era due to his ability to identify the need for change and the betterment of society; however, he would have not been seen as a great leader in the Personality Era due to him alienating the Saskatchewan doctors in his healthcare implementation.
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP Transformational Leadership is defined as leadership style focused on effecting revolutionary change in organizations through a commitment to the organization’s vision. (Sullivan & Decker, 2001) Transformational leaders are usually given higher position and are known for their charismatic sense and ability to develop high visions and regards in the work they do. They often give their best performances due to the low morale or self esteem Example: Steve Job, Bill Gates and Ratan Tata. As the existentialist rightly said, we always have a choice, in doing what we already have done or doing that which we have never done.
. While vision is an essential element of transformational leadership, such leaders are rare. Prophet Muhammad was one of the earlier visionary leaders of distinction. He had a vision of greatness.
Transformational Leadership in Nursing Introduction Transformational Leadership is the moral ability of a person to make sound judgment and wise decision to influence and inspire others to perform the best outcome even in the critical situation. It is the ability to guide others not just in words, but also by example. Nurses are able to cultivate trust and harmony and establish good relationship with their patients and co-workers through effective and constant communication and intervention. They respond to the basic needs and expectation (Rousel, 2011), they set aside their personal interest for the benefit of their patients and the organization.
Authentic and Relational Leadership Poised, Pertinent, Proficient, and Practical Gene T. Roach Jr. University of Charleston Abstract: There are numerous definitions of leadership, all of which contain elements related to people (the leader and the follower(s)), communicating in person or by the written word, actions (organizing, directing, coaching, and/or motivating), and for a purpose (meeting a goal(s) or accomplishing a task(s)) (ADP 6-22) (Fisher 2015) (Bolden 2013) (Hogan 2005). Additionally, everything done occurs within a given context.
Their philosophy is “whatever-it takes” and delegates the frontline managers to lead “it is your business, your division, your market, your stores, your aisle and your customers (Home Depot 2009).” Finally , transformational leaders by definition seek to transform. Sometime when a organization does not transform it’s, employees become unhappy and leaders will
The term "transactional" refers to the fact that this type of leader essentially motivates subordinates by exchanging rewards for performance. A transactional leader generally does not look ahead in strategically guiding an organization to a position of market leadership; instead, these managers are solely concerned with making sure everything flows smoothly today. Advantages As stated above both leadership styles are needed for guiding an organization to success, and it was thanks to that approach that Fight Club was such a successful organization.
Bass & Riggio (2005, pp. 4-8) explains that transformational leaders inspire their followers to exceed their own expectations and perceived capabilities and is comprised of the four components of idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation and individualised consideration. DuBrin (2016, p.163) suggest that leaders in a time of crisis need to
Transformational Approach Transformational leadership style work towards high levels of communication from a management to meet goals. Leaders are meant to motivate employees and augment productivity and efficiency through communication and high visibility. This style of leadership really does need the involvement of management to meet goals. Leaders focus on the big picture within an organization and delegate smaller tasks to the team to accomplish goals. Transformational leadership proves to be efficient not only in business, but in all other sectors where it is used.
They are enthusiastic individuals are usually seen as active, expressive and energetic. They are often optimistic and open to change with a quick and alert mind set. Transformational leaders in today’s society are better for the organization because in maintaining a business for the long term, leaders need to focus on the overall growth of originality and
Followership Ethics: In every relationship between leaders and followers, followers have traditionally functioned as the silent partners. One of the major reasons for this tendency is the increased focus on the actions of politicians, executives and other leaders by most press reports instead of the actions of their subordinates. Secondly, organizations spend huge portions of their finances on training leaders with minimal expenditures on subordinates’ training. Third, most of the existing literature, especially academic books and articles, focus on leadership while very few focus on followership.
Therefore, I would encourage my 100 employees to transform their tasks according to their perspective and privilege them to manage their work in creative manner. As a leader, I would also emphasize on team decision-making practices and involving my 100 employees into decision-making process to enable their commitment and sense of empowerment. I will also put timely efforts to coaching, counseling and guiding my team for effective team-building and self-esteem development. These perspectives and action-plan will help to increase communication, involvement and engagement of the employees leads to empowerment and accountability. The transformational leadership basically focuses on empowering employees and leveraging them for creative methods of completing their tasks.
Organisation’s tend to have a problem in choosing a leadership style, one of the main issues in dealing with the success of organisations. To achieve the organisation’s goal, the leader in the business should have employees satisfied for this strategic goal to be achievable. This essay would critically evaluate with various leadership styles and examples of deployed by leaders that transformational leadership impacts positively on the motivation and organisation culture and thereby influences the success of the business in which they are in. The first style that would be examined is Autocratic and a suitable example to demonstrate this is U.S. Gen. George C. Patton, one of the most brilliant soldiers in America’s history.
followers can achieve maximum performance through the process of shared vision, clarify mission and organizational goals and objectives, encouragement, and positive motivation (Butler, 1999); transformational leadership embraces the idea of maximizing the followers’ full potential to optimize their performance (Bass & Avolio, 1990); transformational has a positive impact on both organizational and followers’ performance (Diaz-Saenz, 2011); autonomous, encouragement, and motivation enhances work performance in more complex and arduous tasks (McCleskey, 2014); it is more predictive of individual or organizational performance (Bass, 1985). There are suggestions in offering the advantageous reasons of the transformational approach such as the style
Taking the importance of transactional leadership style in the decision making process, leaders will make decision by using rationality and will engage in logic when making decisions (Loveren, 2007; Muhammad Naveed & Muhammad Tahir, 2014). Besides, Tatum et al. (2003) also found that these characteristics of transactional leadership style should be connected with less comprehensive decision style as well as reflect a style that puts the amount of information processed. In short, Eberlin and Tatum (2008) conclude that transactional leaders will concerned on how the organization deals out rewards and the policies when their followers participate in the decision making