Transformational Leadership
INTRODUCTION
The biggest empire in the world was built during the late 11th. It was started by someone who were nothing and subsequently become someone who world would not forget. He is Genghis Khan, one of the greatest leaders in the world. Besides him, there are many famous leaders in the world who has contributed and influenced in many aspects of life. Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, Jr, Mahatma Gandhi, Napoleon, Adolf Hitler or our own father are maybe people whom we considered as a great leader.
Their achievements could not be separated from how they manage people around them, motivate, and being someone who can act as a role model for them. And that leadership is about. Yes, it needs skills to do that and it is not as simple as we turning the palm of our hand. There are some processes should be gone through which can’t be done instantly. It needs some valuable and positive changes among people. However, leadership can be learned, understand and develop among people.
Leadership can be categorised into two styles. The first style is called transactional leadership while the other one is called transformational leadership. And on this occasion, the transformational leadership will be explained further. What is transformational leadership, why is it important to organisation, what are the types of its leaders, how do the transformational leaders behave and why resist following the leaders.
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Bass (1990) defined transformational leadership as a form of leadership that occurs when leaders broaden and elevate the interests of their employees, when they generate awareness and acceptance of the purposes and the mission of the group and when they stir their employees to look beyond their own self-interest for the good of the group.
And transformational leadership focuses on how the followers can be motivated, guided and directed to achieve the goals of the work by the leaders (Sullivan & Decker, 2005). They
The biggest empire in the world was built during the late 11th. It was started by someone who were nothing and subsequently become someone who world would not forget. He is Genghis Khan, one of the greatest leaders in the world. Besides him, there are many famous leaders in the world who has contributed and influenced in many aspects of life. Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, Jr, Mahatma Gandhi, Napoleon, Adolf Hitler or our own father are maybe people whom we considered as a great leader.
Their achievements could not be separated from how they manage people around them, motivate, and being someone who can act as a role model for them. And that leadership is about. Yes, it needs skills to do that and it is not as simple as we turning the palm of our hand. There are some processes should be gone through which can’t be done instantly. It needs some valuable and positive changes among people. However, leadership can be learned, understand and develop among people.
Leadership can be categorised into two styles. The first style is called transactional leadership while the other one is called transformational leadership. And on this occasion, the transformational leadership will be explained further. What is transformational leadership, why is it important to organisation, what are the types of its leaders, how do the transformational leaders behave and why resist following the leaders.
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Bass (1990) defined transformational leadership as a form of leadership that occurs when leaders broaden and elevate the interests of their employees, when they generate awareness and acceptance of the purposes and the mission of the group and when they stir their employees to look beyond their own self-interest for the good of the group.
And transformational leadership focuses on how the followers can be motivated, guided and directed to achieve the goals of the work by the leaders (Sullivan & Decker, 2005). They
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