Transformational leadership stimulates and inspires followers to achieve extraordinary outcomes and develop their own leadership capacity. These leaders respond to individual needs, empower followers, and align objectives. They inspire and motivate followers, challenge them to be innovative, and show genuine care and concern. Key elements include idealized influence, inspirational motivation, individualized consideration, and intellectual stimulation. Transformational leaders develop a vision, sell the vision to followers, map a clear direction, and lead by example while encouraging followers. This style of leadership has been shown to increase performance, effort, satisfaction, and development of future leaders. However, it depends on the leader's abilities and characteristics.
1. (8.5)TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
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2. Definition Transformational Leadership
stimulate and inspire their followers to achieve extraordinary
outcomes and, in the process, develop their followers’ own leadership
capacity.
These leaders help followers to grow and develop by responding to
followers’ individual needs by empowering them and aligning the
objectives and goals of the individual followers, the leader, the group,
and the larger organization Transformational leadership is a style of
leadership where a leader works with subordinates to identify needed
change, creating a vision to guide the change through inspiration
executing the change in tandem with committed members of a group.
Transformational leadership serves to enhance the motivation,
morale, and job performance of followers through a variety of
mechanisms
(Carless, S. A. 1998)
3. Transformational transformational
leadership
• ability to inspire and motivate
followers.
• provides followers with challenges
and meaning for engaging in
shared goals and undertakings
• Show followers how their work
applies to real world.
• Behave in an enthusiastic,
passionate and energetic way.
• Process that changes and
transforms.
• Process that is concerned with the
Emotions, Values, Standards, Ethics,
and Long Term Goals.
• A transformational leader motivates
followers to accomplish more than
what is usually expected.
• The sum becomes more powerful
than its Parts.
Transformational vs transformational leadership
(Judge, T. A., & Piccolo, R. F. 2004)
4. Transformational Leadership Elements
Idealized
Influence
Inspirational
Motivation
Individualized
Consideration
Intellectual
Stimulation
• the leader serves as an ideal role model for
followers; the leader "walks the talk," and is
admired for this.
• Transformational leaders have the ability to
inspire and motivate followers. Combined
these first two I's are what constitute the
transformational leader's charisma.
• Transformational leaders demonstrate
genuine concern for the needs and feelings
of followers. This personal attention to each
follower is a key element in bringing out
their very best efforts.
• the leader challenges followers to be
innovative and creative. A common
misunderstanding is that transformational
leaders are "soft," but the truth is that they
constantly challenge followers to higher
levels of performance.
(Bass, B. M., & Riggio, R. E. 2006)
5. Steps for Transformational Leadership
Developing
Vision
• Starts with creating a vision.
• Vision that is exciting and attract potential followers.
Selling the
Vision
• Constantly sell the vision and build a strong network of high potential.
Road Map
• Transformation leaders have a clear vision.
• Have a fair idea about the direction to move and want followers to move in the same direction.
• Ready to accept failures.
Leading
the charge
• Transformation leaders remain in the fore-front during the action
• Always visible and stand up to be counted
• Bolster and infect the followers with commitment and enthusiasm
( Bass, B. M. 1990 )
6. Model the way
Inspire a shared vision
Challenges the process
Enable others to act
Encourage the heart
( James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner , 2003 )
7. Widely researched intuitive appeal.
Focuses on the followers' needs, value and morals.
Enthusiastic work atmosphere.
Innovations.
Higher output and efficiency.
Develops future leaders.
People will work for leader even if monetary
compensation is less.
Benefit
Harms, 2010
11. Example
while some
leaders
accomplish things
through the use of
the sword, Gandhi
chose the method
of nonviolence.
He was could align
his company with
one simple vision,
then he held
everyone
accountable for
their part in making
that vision happen.
He had four main
leader characteristics :
• Vision
• rhetorical skills
• image and trust
building
• personalized
leadership
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