Transactional and Transformational Leadership

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Today, organization are threaten by lots of challenges which require managers to cope with rapid changes in the work place, technology development, competition, growing of employees expectations, raising customer satisfaction and awareness, and so on. Having these challenges and problems solved, organizations should have leaders who possess certain personalities, attitude and skills in order to tackle the business complexity.

In this paper, couple of Leadership theories will be reviewed and discussed in order to provide and suggest proper methods and ways to help leaders drive organizations to be more effective. At the first chapter, the definition of leadership, Transactional Style and Transformational Style is discussed along with major differences between them. In the second chapter, different types of problems a leader may have to deal with are shown with the focus on the problem of change management. This chapter includes an example from the company that the author is working at. Finally, the third chapter discusses the skills, knowledge and experience a leader should have.

--- Company Profile ---

Al Safi Dairy Company was established by Al Faisaliah Holding Group in 1979 in order for them to expand into the food dairy industry including cattle rising and production of raw milk. Also, Al Safi integrated a dairy farm along with a private factory. Al Safi has a wide range of products including fresh milk, long life milk beside other different subsidiaries. By March 1981, there were some recognizable factors which helped Al Safi began the commercial trade of its products and those factors were the combination of the factory, advanced farming techniques and importation of 6,500 heads of cattle from the finest cowherds in the world.
Nowadays, Al Safi has its unique reputation and respected existence among the dairy factories all over the world. In addition to that, Al Safi was recognized in Guinness World Book of Records

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