leadership can be described as "keeping the ship afloat." Transactional leaders use disciplinary power and an array of incentives to motivate employees to perform at their best. A transactional leader generally does not look ahead in strategically guiding an organization to a position of market leadership; instead‚ these managers are solely concerned with making sure everything flows smoothly today. A transformational leader goes beyond managing day-to-day operations and crafts strategies for taking
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old question. Are leaders made or are they born? My belief on this – I believe that a leader is made‚ not born. Why do I say that? Before going further‚ lets be clear on one distinction – when we say a leader is made‚ it does not mean that someone can be taught to become a leader by attending leadership courses. While it helps‚ it is not enough. Warren Bennis (a leading leadership researcher) believes that one cannot be taught to become a leader but one can learn to become a leader over the years through
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Ethical Dimension in Transformational Leadership Anona Armstrong Centre for International Corporate Governance Research Victoria University‚ Australia Anona.Armstrong@vu.edu.au Nuttawuth Muenjohn RMIT University‚ Australia Abstract Few empirical studies have been done that directly address the underlying values that drive leadership or distinguish its ethical dimensions. As a result the development of a theory about how values and ethics affect transformational leadership lacks empirical
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THE LEADER WITH VISION: THE OPTIMISTIC LEADER INTRODUCTION This paper shall be discussed in four parts as follows: • Articulating Your Vision • Living Your Vision • Influence Others With Positive Attitude • Conclusion A leader is someone who guides others. One who assumes t he position of responsibility over the conduct of others that he is leading. Vision on the other hand is “a picture formed in the mind; something conjured up in the imagination without being related to facts.”
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Pseudo-Transformational and Transforming Leadership in the Public Safety Environment Ernest J. Rieux‚ Jr. PSF8602 – Theories of Leadership 3100 Tulane Ave. 284 New Orleans‚ LA 70119 Dr. John Hawkins ejrieux@yahoo.com Today’s leaders are faced with many obstacles that either makes or breaks them in their roles as leaders. The questions and concerns about how leaders should act‚ how they should lead and even how much experience they may have as a leaders
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According to Stone‚ Russell & Patterson‚ (2003)‚ transformational leadership is a kind of leadership style that can inspire and stimulates positive changes in individuals that follows. Transformational leaders are usually emotionally intelligent‚ energetic‚ passionate‚ and fervent. Transformational leader also concentrated on assisting every follower of the group succeed as well. Transformational leaders are individuals‚ who encourage and inspire followers together to attain astonishing values and
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Student ID: 12062298D Student Name: Lau Tsz Ling Argument: Transformational leadership is positively related to Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) Introduction Choosing a good leading approach is critical for a leader to succeed in leading a team in order to achieve team’s goal. Transformational leadership is one of the recommendable leadership theories for leaders to follow for motivating followers to accomplish more than what they have planned through various ways. Organizational
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This paper will use Jack Ma as an example of transformational leader to analyze his leader behavior and effects under the framework of transformational leadership‚ during the analysis‚ both bright and dark sides will be discussed. Conclusion will be drawn after a discussion about Jack Ma’s transformational leadership effectiveness and leader’s effects on the followers‚ organization and
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Transformational leadership theory is defined as inspiring followers through “broadening and elevating followers’ goals and providing them with confidence to perform beyond the expectations specified in the implicit or explicit exchange” (Shin and Zhou 2003‚ as cited in Dvir‚ Eden‚ Avolio‚ & Shamir‚ 2002). This paper intends to focus on the effect that transformational leadership has on individual performance. Dvir et al (2002) observed the Israel Defense Force and hypothesized that transformational
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Organizational culture determines the work environment. Its vision‚ beliefs‚ values and practices are shaped and shared both by the leaders and members gearing towards organizational success. Organizational culture can be changed over time. Despite the existing circumstances‚ the organizational is persistently endeavoring for an effective organizational culture. An effective organizational culture steers stability and adaptability which becomes a driving force to a smooth transition of cultural transformation
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