INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
Globalization has brought much effect to the organization, fierce competition and dynamic customer preference, which force the organization to adapt with the changes in order to survive and succeed. Facing fierce competitions, the organization needs the leaders who can adapt with those dynamic competitions. In organizational context, leadership is one of the factors that determine the organizational competitiveness in global and local economy and leadership can be seen as the essential instrument in achieving the organization strategies and goals, the leaders must deal with the dynamic environment and also supported by follower who shows their commitment to the organizational.
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(2005) there are three categories of leadership behavior, the first is transformational leadership, second is transactional leadership style and the last is non transactional (laissez-faire). The range for this leadership style starts with the ideal category (active and effective) which is transformational, and the worst category (passive and not effective) which is non-transactional (laissez-faire). Nontransactional Leadership considered as the worst leadership behavior. The nontransactional leadership is characterized by a complete abdication or avoidance of leadership (Avolio and Bass, 1998 in Rubin et al., …show more content…
According to Bass and Avolio in Lawer et al., 2005, transformational leadership has been defined as those leaders, who transform the values, needs, aspiration, and priorities of followers and motivate them to perform beyond expectation. In the other side, Burns in Lawler et al, 2005 also stated that transformational leaders are the individual who recognize, understand, and attempt to address each followers needs one a one-on-one basis. Transformational leadership, defined as the process of influencing major changes of attitude and assumption of the organizational members and building the commitment for the organization mission and objective. Transformational leadership focusing on the relationship between leader and follower that benefit for both individuals involved and the organization as a whole (Burns, 1978 in Chelladurai and Kent,