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Transformational Leadership
This leadership style motivates, inspires, and encourages employees to innovate and create changes that aid in growing and shaping the company's future. (Kristiawan (2018).
To facilitate the leadership style, a corporate culture, independence of the workplace, and employee ownership is well monitored and adhered
The leaders of the reformation are inspired and motivated the workforce without any form of micromanaging.
The employees are given authority to make decisions about the job that they are assigned.
The employees are therefore given room to be creative and come up with the solution to the old problems
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Model of Transformational Leadership
James V. Downton started the concept in 1973, and James Burn expanded it in 1978.
The researcher Bernard M. Bass in 1985, expanded this concept of transformational leadership, thus including measurement of the success. (Anderson (2017).
The model was aimed at encouraging leaders by showing strong leadership, thus the employees following the suit.
This model is used up to date as it is an effective leadership style.
It is used across all the industries
It is essential in the industries requiring innovation to carry out daily operations.
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Transformational leadership Characteristics
The transformational leader is considered as one;
Encourages and do motivate a positive development to the colleagues
Follow the moral standards found in the corporation and encourage others
Emphasis on cooperation, authenticity, and open communication
It offers mentoring and coaching programs but allows the employees to make decisions in the working field (Ma’arif (2019).
Builds the culture of the company and advises the workers in avoiding self-interest and be working for a common goal
Set a working environment with ethics, standards, priorities, and clear values
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Areas Specialized by Transformational leaders
Working while driven by changing the system
Eager of knowing the appropriate changes to be done to achieve the goals
Team capability and capacity maximization
Solving any problem by searching for a new experience that will change the old pattern
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Samples of Transformational Leadership
William Edwards Deming- This is the pioneer in quality control in statistics. In the second world war, he was used in statistical control process techniques in the training of the military workers
Peter Drucker – He was a professor and also a management consultant. He was able to predict some of the changes found in the 20th century, for example, Japan's rise in economic power worldwide. He had a great passion for entrepreneurship and innovation.
John Rockefeller was a Standard oil founder who started as a small company and thrived very well. He was well known for having organizational tactics and had well-disciplined strategies.
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Pros on Transformational Leadership
Splendid communication of ideas
An excellent balance of the short-term visions and long term goals
The presence of mutual trust and a strong coalition
High emotional intelligence and integrity
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Cons on Transformational Leadership
Needs existing structure that is fix
It usually is inefficient in the initial stages
Not applicable in ad-hoc instances
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References
Andriani, Kesumawati & Kristiawan (2018). The influence of the transformational leadership and work motivation on teachers performance. International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research, 7(7), 27
Eliyana & Ma’arif (2019). Job satisfaction and organizational commitment effect in the transformational leadership towards employee performance. European Research on Management and Business Economics, 25(3), 147
Boamah, Laschinger, Wong & Clarke (2018). Effect of transformational leadership on job satisfaction and patient safety outcomes. Nursing outlook, 66(2), 187
Anderson (2017). Transformational leadership in education: A review of existing literature. International Social Science Review, 93(1), 4.
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