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Running head: JOURNAL 31 LEADERSHIP THEORIES 1
JOURNAL 31 LEADERSHIP THEORIES
TAMARA GONZALEZ
SNHU
MARCH 1, 2018
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Leadership theories are broadly categorized into two; situational and transformational.
Situational leadership attempts to encompass a wide range of managerial styles to
accommodate all people with their diversities in an organization (May, 2018). It is based on
the demise that one size does not fit all thus there is no ‘singlebest’ approach to leadership.
As such, the situational leadership theory adopts the four styles of telling, selling,
participating and delegating in leadership roles.
Transformational leadership on the other hand, is based on influence to bring about
movement and change in an organization (Tucker et al., 2004). It employs the power and
authority accorded to leaders to motivate and inspire people to follow the example set before
them. Transformational leadership is often confused with transactional leadership, but a
major difference between them is that whereas transformational leadership entails innovation,
transactional leadership entails a change of planning and policy (King, 1994).
Relating these leadership theories to my own personal leadership conceptual framework, my
leadership approach identifies mostly with the transformational leadership style. For starters,
as a leader, I always want to be the very best and exemplify outstanding results so that others
following me can follow the trend I set for them. As such, I use my authority and power to
influence and motivate them to skew their roles to tend towards mine.
Moreover, in performing leadership roles and responsibilities where decision making is
involved, I engage others to forge a common way forward from what we already
accomplished from following my example, and as such we innovate better ways to perform
tasks and responsibilities working towards greater goods. My leadership style rhymes with
Davidhizer & Shearer (1997) approach of giving encouragement as a tranformational leader.
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References
Davidhizer, R., & Shearer, R. (1997). Giving encouragement as a transformational leadership
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King, S. (1994). What is the latest on leadership? Management Development Review, 79.
May, R. (2018). Basics of the Situational Leadership Model. WebFinance Inc.
Tucker, Bruce A.; Acworth; Georgia; Russell, Robert F.; Emory; Emory & Henry College;
VA. (2004). The Influence of the Transformational Leader. Journal of Leadership and
Organizational Studies, 10(4), 103111.