Transformational Leadership Theory Paper

Transformational leadership is a recent approach to leadership that has been at the heart of much of the research since the early 1980s and is currently the most influential theory of leadership (Hu et al., 2012; Muenjohn, 2007). To demonstrate, from 1990 to 1997, there were 200 theses and doctoral dissertations that considered or examined transformational leadership and transactional leadership (Bass & Avolio, 1997; Charbonnier-Voirin, El Akremi & Vandenberghe, 2010). Many authors agree that transformational leadership theory is a sentinel work in the leadership discipline. For example, Sakiru et al. (2013) asserted that this theory of leadership was the main subject of the collection of research studies and that it will continue to be of
interest to more researchers in the future. This is reflected in current research by McCleslkey (2014) which declared that there are three leadership theories are the seminal work of leadership theories in recent studies. Those theories are transformational, transactional and situational leadership theory.