Transformational Transactional Leadership Leadership is one of the four major functions performed by managers. There are various leadership styles which managers adopt in different situations, problems, and organizational issues depending upon the sensitivity of their working environment (Hoye II 2005). These leadership styles include transformational leadership, transactional leadership, charismatic leadership, authentic leadership, paternalistic leadership, autocratic leadership, etc. These leadership styles shape the way a leader manages, motivates, encourages, trains, and directs

Leadership Theories Two major categories of leadership theory are transformational leadership and transactional leadership. Both theories originated in the 1970s with the upsurge of popular psychosocial therapeutic approaches. Transformational leadership is based on the creation of high trust relationships that evoke intrinsic employee motivation and are characterized by meaningful extrinsic incentives for followers and leaders. Transformational leaders tend to exhibit charismatic personalities that inspire followers to work toward a mutually

RESPONSE (LEADERSHIP FOR CHANGE)Response (Leadership for Change)Juliano OIn the first post, my colleague opted to focus on idealized influence in addition to inspirational support as an approach of quality improvement initiative. According to Khan et al (2020), idealized influence and inspirational support is a collective approach whereby transformational leaders use idealized influence to offer inspirational support. As highlighted by Juliano, idealized influence along with inspirational support enhances organizational support and

This theory also suits me well as I believe that the greater the effort and intensity, the higher the probabili8ty of attaining ones' objectives. There is also the element of continual learning, both at work and school to interpret and when applicable, use the lessons learned. Expectancy theory also is well-suited for accounting for environmental factors that can at times be uncontrollable yet capitalized on, leading to the attainment

Transformational Women's Leadership The website for Changing Minds.org describes transformational leadership in the standard way, as charismatic leaders with vision and imagination who inspire followers to achieve radical change in an organization or society. Transformational leaders are passionate and exciting and they care about their followers. They make people believe that their ideals can be achieved through their own commitment, enthusiasm and drive. In the process, their followers are also transformed

Leadership for Organizations Leadership The success of organizations and individuals' careers are influenced by the role of leaders. Nowadays firms seek leadership skills in individuals for all sorts of careers while recruiting. Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) believe that it has become critically important to nurture leadership approach at all levels of the organization (Lussier, Achua, 2009, p. 4). The topic of leadership has been gaining tremendous attention of academic world and media (Bass,